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17.5 Million Dollars NY City Fund was spent to
Compensate a Criminal

In Oct, 2010, a judge ordered NY City to compensate a criminal by giving him 17.5 million dollars. The criminal had diabetes and was arrested by policemen when selling drugs. Policemen kept his medicine as well and resulted in the criminal having brain damage. The whole case made New York taxpayers’ lose the 17.5 million dollars fund.
In this case the judge did a very careful job. He listed why he made New York City pay that kind of reward. Two million dollars is compensation for the criminal’s current suffering. Two million dollars is for his suffering in the future.( The criminal will suffer for his diabetes early or late even though without the accident.) Ten million dollars is nursing fee for the future.(Actually providing the criminal home care lifelong only needs about six hundred thousand dollars). Another 3.5 million dollars will be paid by the two policemen who made the arrest. In this case the judge ignored one very basic condition: if the criminal didn’t sell drugs the whole thing would not happen. The judge did not let the criminal take a bit of responsibility and over – estimated the cost of the accidents. Even a patient would not get that kind of reward in a medical negligence case in a hospital. I feel that I am watching a show here. A show tells the world that America cares about human rights including a criminal’s human rights. Again no one cares about the public and taxpayer’s benefit in this picture.
We always see that millions and millions of dollars are paid to victims of different kind of accidents. One day after I saw the news I mentioned above, the court made New York City pay another 18.5 million dollars to Alan Newton, a guy who was jailed over twenty years by mistake. In my opinion what happened has already happened. All we should give the victim is twenty years high salary for instant fifty thousand dollars a year (for his level should be high enough). In twenty years it will be 1.2 million dollars. On top of that we gave him one million dollars for his suffering. No matter what the compensation should not go up to 18.5 million dollars. I don’t know who actually makes decisions in the court, the judge or the people having jury duty.
I once was selected to do jury duty related to a car accident. When being interviewed by lawyers from both sides, I made a simple comment and said that soldiers who were wounded in the Iraq war could not get the rewards people requested in our courts. My comment was passed to the judge and the judge wanted to see me. When I got there the judge asked me,” do you know American law?” I said: “No! I just know something from the newspaper”.
At that time, two interesting cases were reported in the newspaper. One was related to a judge sued for ten million dollars compensation because his trousers were misplaced by a Laundromat owner. As a judge he knew American laws well. If he did not have a chance to win he would not start the case. Being watched by the whole world U. S court did not let the judge get what he wanted. Another case was related to a woman who had a high position in Madison Square Garden NYC. She sued for being harassed by Knick’s ex-couch, Isaiah Thomas and got 7 million dollars reward in that case.
The annual salaries for these two “victims” must be more than one hundred thousand dollars. In that kind of positions they suppose were tough enough to take pressures. They believe they deserve the compensation must be because they were suffering mentally, suffered for the trousers was lost or suffered for being considered beautiful. In my opinion, if they felt hurt psychology for those small reasons that means they are not qualify to work in their position at all. They should go home and should return salaries that we over paid them all these years. Our so call free system over considers an individual’s feeling and over protects an individual’s human right but ignores the publics’ benefit. All the rewards those “victims” got are eventually paid by the masses through insurance bill or basketball ticks. I mentioned my opinion in front of the judge that day.
American court insists on small things and ignores big principle -masses’ benefit. Our judges should take courses about that before making decisions. Mean while we should limit the influences of people who are on jury duty. They are from different classes, have different levels of understanding and might not know American laws that well. Having regular people judge the court cases could not prove that this country has a democratic system. If we so much depend on them what do we need laws and judges for?