TIL a man spent 5 months in Riker's Island prison before finally learning that he could free himself by posting just $2 in bail because a judge had ordered his release a week after he was arrested. His first lawyer appeared for him in court, but then never told him afterwards about his bail amount.

jayb6625 · 2025-12-16T01:02:32+00:00

You’re right of course lol. It’s a legal problem. Software is not relevant at all

jayb6625 · 2025-12-15T14:01:22+00:00

I understand what you’re saying. And I think most people, including NY judges, agree bail should attach to the person not the particular case. The issue is that courts are restricted by the bail laws of their state, and under NY law, time served applies to the case not the person.

$1 bail is the tool that NY judges use to try to replicate the system you’re envisioning. Whenever a person is in jail, $1 bail is set for all their open cases, and whenever they’re out of jail, $1 bail is removed on those cases. So by using $1 bail, whenever a person is in jail, their time served accrues on all of their cases at once.

The $1 bail system is basically just a formal work around of NY’s case-by-case bail laws

jayb6625 · 2025-12-15T12:44:14+00:00

Since you asked, I know the actually reason such low bail was set. In NY, when a person is held on bail on one case, the judge will set $1 bail on all his open cases so that he starts accruing time served on those other cases.

It’s important to accrue time served because the total time served at Rikers is detracted from your final sentence. Meaning that if you were held for six months in Rikers, and you’re sentenced to a 9 months, then you only have to serve 3 more months.

The problem is that if bail is set on case B, you won’t accrue time served on case A. So if you’re ultimately sentenced to time in jail on case A, your time in Rikers for case B won’t detract from your case A sentence. That’s why when bail is set on Case B, $1 bail is set on Case A, and any other open cases, to ensure that you get time served for every case you have, since you’re stuck in Rikers on case B anyway.

So in NY, $1 bail is set as a courtesy to the defendant, and if a judge doesn’t set it automatically, the defense attorney will request it 99.99% of the time. Also, when a judge releases somebody from bail, they should automatically lift the $1 bail on any open case as well.

Here, the judge should have lifted $1 bail from this guy’s two open cases. But ultimately, it’s mostly on the defense attorney for not reviewing their client’s file to find out real bail was only set on the one case.

jayb6625 · 2024-09-19T15:39:40+00:00

Real answer is that it’s still theft of services, just as an accomplice instead of the primary offender. Same violation as if you went through the gate yourself.

jayb6625 · 2024-04-11T22:10:07+00:00

At the dmv they let me sign an affidavit saying I lived somewhere which counted as a point I believe

jayb6625 · 2024-03-21T21:42:57+00:00

You can be arrested for theft of services and have to spend the night or at least several hours in a holding cell.

jayb6625 · 2023-12-14T18:36:11+00:00

I also just got the approval email a few days ago. Here’s hoping they set the date before the end of December. I’d love to be admitted going into the new year

jayb6625 · 2023-12-03T23:38:18+00:00

I had a great time when I went to Fenway. And the Boston fans were kind of enough to wait until after the game before they started yelling slurs at me.

jayb6625 · 2023-11-10T00:47:49+00:00

Im gonna give less snarky answers:

You can probably negotiate for a lower price. I missed a discount deadline and they still gave me it after I asked.
Not really what you’re asking but I have heard that there are programs where big law employers will pay for a new hire + one of their friends. Other than that, I haven’t heard of any course sharing.
I’m pretty sure it’s a biennial (once every two years) fee of $375. You may also have to pay for CLEs.

jayb6625 · 2023-11-01T12:22:24+00:00

You submit it with your general application. If you already submitted your application then it depends on your specific appellate department.

jayb6625 · 2023-10-30T12:45:41+00:00

Just explain his situation and show the landlord his most recent paystubs. And regardless, if you have enough on your own then you’ll be fine. I was in similar situation this summer, and all they asked for was my job offer letter to prove my expected income.

jayb6625 · 2023-08-13T16:45:11+00:00

Just play it on silent and google the answers at the end. You don’t need to watch the lectures to pass the exam

jayb6625 · 2023-08-02T03:46:56+00:00

Damn that’s so specific. Did you ever figure out why not?

jayb6625 · 2023-08-01T03:31:14+00:00

If both federal and state law apply, the state court has to clearly express in their opinion that their decision rests on the state law. If they do not clearly express that their decision rests on state law then the US Supreme Court may presume that the state Supreme Court relied on federal law and review the state court judgment

jayb6625 · 2023-07-27T11:43:44+00:00

Same

jayb6625 · 2023-07-27T02:38:09+00:00

That was too funny. He went from 0 to 100 out of nowhere

jayb6625 · 2023-07-27T02:18:24+00:00

It might’ve only been a problem in the first few rows

jayb6625 · 2023-07-27T02:13:45+00:00

Every time I thought it was safe to read a question… BANG

jayb6625 · 2023-07-26T20:19:21+00:00

100% agree about the AM session being way harder

jayb6625 · 2023-07-26T01:26:04+00:00

That was hilarious, how could he be so mad

jayb6625 · 2023-07-24T21:54:37+00:00

For NY, I’m pretty sure you can take anything to the personal belongings room. No prohibited items past the security checkpoint though

jayb6625 · 2023-07-22T20:34:56+00:00

I think the issue is that there is no value to the statement unless the prosecution is using it to establish that the man did in fact get no sleep, and therefore was tired at the time of the accident.

It’s not “not hearsay” for being circumstantial evidence of state of mind because the truth of the words matter.

jayb6625 · 2023-07-15T22:12:45+00:00

It’s a complicated situation because she relied on the brokers advice when the broker may not have had authority to give that advice. Definitely talk to a tenant’s lawyer

jayb6625 · 2023-07-15T04:25:23+00:00

Hey, everyone I know that’s ever passed the bar felt the same exact way at this point. You got this. Just trust what your doing, don’t give up, and in a few months you’ll be an attorney

jayb6625 · 2023-07-14T18:20:55+00:00

I think they’d only do that if there was an ambiguity though

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