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I'm not familiar with this "serving papers" thing. Can someone ELI5 (and not American)?
What's the legal aspect of having to physically give someone some documents?
It's basically "Hi, here's some documentation informing you of legal proceedings against you. You now have no excuse to say you didn't know about it and are legally required to participate in the proceedings."
The person that serves the papers stands as the witness to the specific individual receiving said papers. Rather than mailing them and the papers just being ignored and people playing dumb about it to try to get out of whatever is going on for as long as possible.
If I'm missing something someone is more than welcome to come add onto or correct me if I'm wrong.
This about sums it up. But I will add that there's also a subtype of bounty hunters who's whole job is to track folks down to serve papers. Not really much to add past that just a fun fact.
I ran into one of these a few weeks ago trying to serve papers to my neighbor. They rang my bell to ask about him. Crazy.
I'm no snitch, but I did confirm some guy lives there, but I don't know anything about him 🤷♂️
Which also happens to be mostly the truth. Couldn't even tell you the guys name.
I see them knocking on his door every few days or so, still haven't got him.
But I AM a snitch when it counts, I definitely called the police on his girlfriend for drunk driving before.
She came home, struggled to get up the stairs, struggled to unlock her door, and then complained loudly to her cats, yelling, describing how drunk she was to them. Then 10 minutes later I heard her door again, by the time I got to my window she was driving away. I dialed 911 immediately. Unfortunately nothing came of it 🤷♂️
A yes a prime example of the failures of the legal situation, seriously would it kill them to send a patrol car to the area in case something happened at a minimum. Also yeah these bounty guys are probably on the good side of the bounty hunting profession mostly cause they usually are just there to keep the court system moving, unlike their cowboy wannabe kin who just seem to cause problems.
Just the first lady you can not serve ask michael wolf
Not necessarily against you specifically being prosecuted. They can also serve a subpoena to you if you are required as a witness on a case.
That's what happened to me.
The weird part was that when I was handed the papers I thought it was about a completely different case that was going to require me as a witness. This is weird because the only two times in my entire life I was (or thought I would be) subpoenaed happened at exactly the same time on two completely unrelated cases.
It's so the court can prove the person was made aware of the case being brought against them.
So they can't say "I didn't even know this was happening because no one made me aware".
Mike is very much the type of asshole who would say that if there wasn't proof someone physically made him aware. Hell, he's the type of asshole who would say it anyway.
Otherwise people claim they never got the notice. Has to be delivered in person with a witness.