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His wages will be garnished forever. He's been sentenced to destitution forever. He'd be better off just leaving the country.
I'm hoping he's a US citizen so he won't be able to avoid paying US taxes anywhere he goes without also getting a new identity and going into permanent hiding. As long as his life is destroyed far more comprehensively than his attempt to destroy hers, I'm happy.
Well done that jury. This is not just about a very large settlement, it's a very newsworthy settlement. It's impossible to measure the impact on crimes that don't happen but I reckon there will be a fair few potential perpetrators of this sort of crime who might just manage to get a fucking grip because of this. And a fair few victims who find a way to exact an entirely justified revenge on those who fail to grow the fuck up anyway.
well if he was to leave the US and never return there's very little risk in not paying the bills. it's likely little would happen if you came back to visit for the holidays, either
I thought the US was pretty hot on chasing non-resident citizens for their taxes (and presumably garnished wages)?
How are you going to enforce it?
I'm not going to enforce it. It's entirely possible that the US givt does not enforce it despite requiring it. But they usually only ignore taxes for very rich people, who can dodge them anyway, so I'd expect them to enforce it?
I wouldn't say he is sentenced to destitution. Wage garnishment is capped at 25% of disposable income. And you keep a minimum of 217.5 per week (30 hours of minimum wage a week).
A 25% pay cut certainly hurts but depending on his income he could still have a decent life.
The amount is ridiculous but even a more reasonable sentence around 500k-5mil would probably not change anything for his situation. Most people wouldn't pay that off in their lifetime at 25% of income.
Iirc the 25% cap really only ends up applying if you have more than one active garnishment. Individual garnishments are generally 10% of gross. Maybe there are exceptions where one can go up to the full 25% of disposable, but it's rarely the case.
He would have been better off not trying to ruin her life and put her directly in harms way.
Putting up naked pictures of someone with their name and address? This is a man who wanted her raped or dead.
Fuck your sympathy for him having consequences for his own actions.