I know everybody is on edge to hear the results of the cases I so judiciously jury-fied this past week.
The Independent Republic of Horry County sent an invitation for me to apply my wisdom to the disputes between my fellow citizens residents.
Case one: Four (admittedly) illegal aliens contended that they worked for an (alleged) illegal alien for four weeks on a construction project at the Market Commons in Myrtle Beach. They said the defendant never paid them for this work. They also said that there were ten other men that all worked on the same building and lived in the same trailer (that the defendant provided).
14 men+ 1 trailer+no running water or electricity = nothing unusual.
They didn’t complain about the living conditions, just the lack of pay.
The defendant (M*^@$#)admitted that all of this was true but said that he worked for a company called M&M Construction owned by Silvia M$#^^%&*#$% and was not responsible. He never explained who the other M in M&M was. He also failed to explain that his business card for his own company, M*^@$# Framing had the same phone number that was used to open the bank account for M&M.
On cross we found out that M*^@$# shared a child and address with M$#^^%&*#$% .
Then he tried to say he fired them because they were drunk all the time. For a month.
Deliberation: Since the Federl Gubmint won’t do their job, now the states and counties (and Independent Republics) across the nation have to deal with these situations. As a whole the Jury was pretty perturbed that we had to give up our time to decide this matter when they all should be back in their home countries figuring out why there is no construction going on there. We also felt confident that the men had worked for a month with no pay and that wasn’t right.
Verdict: It was obvious that the defendant was a snake who took advantage of both our lax immigration enforcement and the vulnerability of the illiterate aliens who would work for cash and without the protections of a normal payroll system.
He owed them all what they said and the judge upped that to $7500 each (court maximum).
Result: Because he is a snake and makes up companies at least once a year to avoid detection, probably has one or more false SSNs and lives out of state, he will continue his life as normal. The Plaintiffs lawyer will try to find some of his assets or accounts to have them garnished but will in all likelihood never receive a dime for his clients. In other words – six Citizens, a lawyer, judge , clerk, records people and support personnel spent hours, some of them days to try a case in which there is no result.