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Friday, February 13, 2004

Proposal: Legal Fees [Law]

First, in the second paragraph of Rule 25 - Trials, instead of adding "half of" the status of the Prosecuting Lawyer and the Defense Lawyer, make it read "up to half of" in both cases.

Add the following at the end of the second paragraph of Rule 25 - Trials:
The amount of status contributed is limited to the funds provided to the lawyer. Both the Prosecuting Lawyer and the Defense Lawyer must be compensated in advance for their time by being paid $1 for every status point that they contribute to the Prosecuting Status or Defense Status. The Prosecuting Lawyer must be paid by The Man, and the Defense Lawyer can be paid by any person or group of persons that wishes to do so, including himself or herself. If insufficient payment is provided, the lawyer will only contribute status up to the amount that they are paid.


Note: because the Defense Lawyer can contribute to their own legal fees, they are able to accept a partial payment, or even no payment at all, for their work. The Prosecuting Lawyer does not have that luxury, which means that The Man had better have a pretty solid case.

I also thought about increasing The Man's weekly income to make up for the effectively higher legal costs, but decided against it since (1) The Man is loaded, (2) the Defendant needs all the help they can get financially, and (3) historically, the Mob had more money available than the police did.


Enacted by Keitalia, 18th Feb +10 to Damanor +2 to Keitalia.