Genuinely curious and ignorant about restitution from inmates who spend the read of their lives in prison.

How would he ever be able to pay 5M+ USD?

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    Patrick Crusius was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences

    This is a non-story. Hell, if I was in prison, with no hope of reprieve, I’d agree to whatever you put in front of me. What were we supposed to learn here?

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      Perhaps this is to ensure that any future income he might get is already earmarked for families. What income you ask? If a killer later signs a book deal or sells the movie/TV rights, that could represent quite a bit of money for the victims. By getting an agreement now, there won’t be a fight in the future.

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        It’s brilliant if this is why. I absolutely hate that serial killers can still sell thier story for money. Fuck you; you forfeit that right when you take someone elses life.

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          Yeah selling your criminal story should be considered proceeds of crime, right? Like, you only made that money because you did crime. 100% of money made from a crime in perpetuity should be given directly to victims.

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    I’ve watched the Legal Eagle on YouTube, and what seems to usually happen is that the damages, regardless of whatever the jury says, oftentimes have maximums that they have to be knocked down to. The point of aiming that high seems to be for the jury to send a message. After that, IIRC, even though they’ll never be able to pay it all back, their wages will be garnished effectively for the rest of their life. Given that most Americans, who haven’t been convicted of a felony, have trouble living paycheck to paycheck? Not to mention the fact that your average felon is never going to get a job worth a damn again, if at all?

    Basically if this guy ever gets out of jail (what she won’t with all those life sentences) he won’t really have any prospects in life whatsoever. I’m not really a fan of that second part. But our “justice” system is all about punishment, not reform, no matter what they may tell you on TV.

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      You can’t garnish wages in Texas state cases unless it’s for child support. The US Code allows for it in federal cases, but it’s mostly in case this guy gets money on a book deal or something insane like that.

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    Maybe they’ll put him on a work program or some shit and garnish the wages? No way that’ll ever amount to $5mil though.

    Or maybe he’ll start a GoFundMe. /s

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      Since he’s in prison, the reality is that the amount he’s paying is negative. Instead of paying the government money in the form of a fine, he’s costing the government money because he’s in prison and needs to be fed, housed and guarded.

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      Indeed. It appears he didn’t have a lucrative career beforehand. Even if he wasn’t in prison and worked for 50 years and had 25% of disposable income garnished (the maximum amount) he’d need $37,000 of disposable income, per month.

      I’m not saying those lives are worth less, they are definitely worth more. But this sum was never going to be recouped.

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      Considering farthings have been out of circulation for about 60 years, and never American currency, I think.

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    Am I missing something about how this racist psychopath is independently wealthy at 23? No? Then why even bother with this? He’s already going to die in prison.

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      They can go after estate but that’s it. They can’t go after siblings or children or parents.