• retrospectology@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Whatever method they use to charge homeless people with crimes I suppose. They might have to set up a PO box or something somewhere.

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      4 months ago

      Crimes are charged where the crime took place, where you live doesn’t matter.

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        4 months ago

        Yes, I’m saying if you can process someone for a crime without a home address you can do it for a lawsuit. It’s not some insurmountable hurdle.

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          You can’t, it’s different. Charging someone with a crime is easy, and even if the person doesn’t talk or have ID they are given a John Doe identifier and a random number and will go through the criminal proceedings.

          In civil cases that information cannot be left blank, otherwise a clerk cannot file it and the courts won’t place it on a docket.