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Originally Posted by dyna mo
duh. when you fail to comply with the speed limit you violate a law and the cop can take you directly to jail for that or issue a citation with your promise to appear in court and let you go on your way.
there was no reason to go to extremes with this woman, she could have been fined not sent to fucking jail.
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She was held for contempt charges. She was ordered by the court do "X", and failed to what she was told. In that case, according to the law, she goes to jail. She remains in jail so long as she refuses to do what the court tells her to do. In this case, the only reason she was released was because her office is now in fact issuing marriage certificates to gay men and women. If she shows up for work in the morning and refuses to issue marriage certificates, back to jail she goes.
But you are right. We should not have thrown her in jail. The fact that she violated the law multiple times isn't important. Instead, we should have just stoned her for wearing threads of different cloths.