That a parent demanding their right to be present if police want to question their child triggers prosecution, and that college applications don't ask if the person has been convicted of a crime but whether they have been charged with one.
Wasn’t his money. He should have turned it in to lost and found.
White people who have been charged with a crime probably can’t go to college.
Probably not an issue at all for the blacks.
The only crime is not attempting to find the owner of the money.
This kind of thing makes a person lose all respect for the “legal justice system.”
Stupid kid and family.
They should have set up the Hunter Global Initiative fund. Then they could put all kinds of money in it - bribes, graft, thefts, counterfeits, hustles, taxes, contributions - and lived fat and large off of it.
:: a parent demanding their right to be present if police want to question their child triggers prosecution ::
This is the most disturbing of your points.
I have consistently taught all my charges (children and SS students) to not answer without some type of counsel present.
Even a simple question during a traffic stop of:
“Do you know why I stopped you?” is prima facia collection of evidence and is protected by the 1st, 4th and 5th Amndt.
Don’t talk to the [currently militarized] police. Politely ask them to perform their duties as prescribed.
Search UTOOB for hundreds of lessons and examples.
Out of all the things that happen at schools these days, this just sounds trivial. I believe the kid just found the bill and didn’t realize it wasn’t real. The kid seems to be a good kid, I don’t know how it got blown out of proportion like this. He sounded like a bright kid and was well spoken, unlike the wannabe thugs that fill many of the schools today.
So if I am at a store and the clerk gives me a $10 bill as part of my change, and I use that $10 in another store that marks it positive as fake, I would get charged for forgery???
WTF????
Was the bill actually counterfeit?
A spritz with spray starch can make any bank note fail the counterfeit pen test.
Blatantly unconstitutional. If the parent doesn't waive rights on behalf of the minor, they are subject to prosecution.
Counterfeit money is not a joke. Ask the Secret Service.
There are several possibilities with this situation, as I see it:
1) Kid found the bill like he said.
2) Kid got the bill innocently from someone else and he is protecting him/her.
3) Kid got the bill from counterfeiter and was passing it.
4) Kid is the counterfeiter.
I spent a $10 bill a couple weeks ago and the guy at the counter swiped it with the pen. It was the first time I’d ever seen someone test a bill smaller than a $20, so I asked if people were counterfeiting tens now. He answered, “Yes, and fives, too.”
I take that as a sign of how bad the economy is, that people are counterfeiting five and tens.
I would like to see an image of this bill, or at least know how it was produced. It used to be that counterfeiters actually made printing plates which is why they only did larger bills.
Now anyone with a good laser printer can make passable currency.
There’s going to be PR hell to pay for this school district if charges don’t disappear pretty quick. It’s just west of chi-chi Sugarland and Katy ISDs and people don’t like seeing school kids legally abused. The mom and kid are going to have no problem lining up the best legal counsel. School districts in these parts hate bad PR like vampires hate garlic.
Any time I find money, I always try my best to find the owner.
Trouble is, not a single person has ever been able to verify their ownership by giving me the serial number of their lost bill.
He can’t be charged with forgery unless they show he made the note. He can be charge with passing a forged note if he knew it was forged. People unknowingly pass forged money all the time none of which are charged with a crime. My guess is there might be more details to come.
What the heck is wrong with law enforcement and local/state government lawyers in Texas? This weirdness is not an isolated incident.
I must be behind times! What is a counterfeit pen?
I see cashiers use a pen to mark a bill, but just thought marking it showed that the clerk looked closely at it. They used to do it to $50s all the time, but some are now doing it to $20s.
“1. That a parent demanding their right to be present if police want to question their child triggers prosecution”
I don’t have an issue with that. They way I see it, if a parent sends their kid to a public school, the school can do whatever it wants - as public schools answer to politicians, not parents. The only thing wrong here is the parent sending the kid there in the first place - should have known better.
“...that college applications don’t ask if the person has been convicted of a crime but whether they have been charged with one.”
This one I don’t like. It’s like asking if the kid has ever been in a Walmart - it’s none of their damn business.
I think the bottom line, in this case, is that they strongly suspect that the kid knows where the money came from and he’s not squealing. They want him to sing.
Who expected to find common sense in a public school house?
A lot of paperwork now asks if you have been arrested or charged instead of convicted. I don’t know how this came to be...my daughter has a job that requires a high level background check and she said her paperwork asked if you had been “investigated” as well. I wonder how you would always know if you had been investigated related to a crime? I guess Hillary could not work in my daughter’s job- right?
The lesson learned: Find money in school, turn it in. If not claimed, get it back.
I found one of those once. Just laying in the street. Looked pretty real from 3 feet away, but it was made with cheap copy paper. I don’t know if it was a deliberate counterfeit or just a prank by kids with a color copier.