Its like anything Legal it all comes down to the wording and the intent. A
law may be broken but you have to show there was the intent to do so.
I often see cases get thrown out becuse of all the mumbo jumbo in how a
particular statute is written.
We just had a case here were one of our mid 20s Volunteer Firefighters was
gong around the community
saying he was Asst. Fire Marshal for community and assiting the Fire Marshal
with various cases. He even had a buisness card made up using my companys
acronym saying he was my Chief Investigator.
After confiring with the real Fire Marshal and DA office
the young man was reprimanded and agreed to knock it off and never again
use my company name .But no criminal charge of inpersonating a public
servant could be filed becuse the way the statute was written we had to
show his intent was to use the made up posistion to a fidiciary benefit or
to opress the public which we could not.
He was basicaly trying to impress the chicks. only legal recourse I had
would have been to file civil suit against him and it was not worth the
cost. luckily he got a good scare from DA and Fire Marshal and has chosen to
leave the Fire Service all together.
"Just when I thought I was starting to see the light at the end of the
Tunnel it was only some Bastard with a Torch
bringing me more work"
--
Nick Markowitz Jr.
Owner
Markowitz Electic Protection
Private Industry Fire Investigator.
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