Dominican systems of fines

granca

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Aug 20, 2007
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Although it makes sense to me for convicted drug barons and the like to receive pretty hefty fines I find it hard to understand the system of fines being 10 or more times annual income for the un or ill educated unemployed. Do they burden that type of criminal with a fine that could not be paid off in three life times let alone the existing one or do they interpret the sentence literally so that if he/she earns nothing they actually get fined nothing?