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Choices
I will find my death here in the Exclaves. He – that outworlder – beat my friend to death. Not for profit. Not for a plan or a revenge or some twisted necessity. Slowly, and for his pleasure,...
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Saravoné’s Code
This is the Code of Saravoné, the Just One, the Scale-Bearer, by whom all Law is upheld. To live is to exist to possess to act. All that lives shares this wellspring: existence, property, will; a...
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Trope-a-Day: Brainwashing For The Greater Good
Brainwashing For The Greater Good: The Imperial legal system’s penalties for pretty much every non-capital crime above the level of a misdemeanor (or for chronic misdemeanants) include, along with the...
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One Law For All
“Understand this: we have only one crime in the Empire. That crime is choice-theft. “Underlying every principle of our law, more fundamental even than the Contract and the Charter, is jírileth – the...
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Juvenile Justice
Court of Common Pleas and Small Claims District of Lower Iselyain Selenaria “This Court has now reviewed the evidence, surveillance, and thought-records placed before it. Does the Advocate for...
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Trope-a-Day: Pay Evil Unto Evil
Pay Evil Unto Evil: How played straight it is depends upon your taste, really. Imperial justice and generic morality will happily kill Evil (or Orange, if you prefer) of adequate magnitude and walk...
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Trope-a-Day: Computerized Judicial System
Computerized Judicial System: The technical term is cyberjudiciary, incidentally, just as the computerization of much of the executive branch’s working end is cybermagistry. Of course, it’s easier when...
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…With Justice For All
SYSTEMIC INTEGRATED TECHNOLOGIES TICKET-TRACKING: CASE 921632 From: Supervisor of Police, Behibehin Rock Mail Subject: HELP US NOW YOUR SYSTEM LOCKED EVERYONE UP AND WE CANT FIX IT WHAT THE — Subject:...
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Question: Plea Bargains
Y’all get May’s first question the day it arrived, ’cause it’s an easy one: So what would Imperial jurisprudence make of the notion of the plea bargain? Sarcasm, mostly. The way the more dyspeptic...
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Bonfire of the “Elites”
In today’s somewhat morose worldbuilding thoughts inspired by real-world events (in this case, the Harvey Weinstein affair, along with an endless parade of abuse-of-power stories courtesy of Sheriff...
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