Not a job for judges
Regarding your staff writer Eric Swensen's article (Sept. 17) on red-light cameras, the state constitution states that the "Clear proceeds of all penalties and forfeitures of all fines collected ... for any breach of the penal laws of the state" are to go to the school systems. I submit that the "clear proceeds" as indicated cannot be adjudicated. It is a matter of accounting principle and must be determined based on the situation.
I submit that no Superior Court judge or any other judge can establish a percent of receipts as "clear proceeds" of penalties, forfeitures or breach of any penal law of the state.
P.A. Mansfield
Greensboro
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"no Superior Court judge or any other judge can establish a percent of receipts as "clear proceeds" of penalties, forfeitures or breach of any penal law of the state". Apparently neither can the company who sold the systems to begin with, or the people who decided to buy them or the people that were supposed to be making sure the contracts were adhered to.
Posted on October 3, 2005 3:41 PM