Pacifica55 wrote:
Costa Rica handles prosecution differently than in the US. Here, they toss you in the slammer for six months while they decide whether or not to prosecute. If you are likely to get out for "time served" why waste money on a trial? That is why many people arrested for minor offenses are never tried.
indeed, their preventive detention is a scary thing for tico's, more so if a gringo gets caught up in something like the illegal gringo who had a bar in a pacifico beach town and capped a robber, 6 years ago maybe, they locked him up for 6 months based on an eyewitness disputing his version, if i remember, he lost the bar, and then died in the shitter, not positive, i think i am in the onset of alzheimer's.
my question is how often do they use preventive detention. i know the italiano scammer who bought their soccer team got it once his ponzi scheme was uncovered a few years ago. i think the cubano ponzi guy got it--i see in today's paper that he settled with his victims for like a penny on the dollar and so now they are going to drop the prosecution--wow. i read last year that one of the home invaders in the drake area who was wearing a cop uniform when he got caught was out of the shitter waiting for his murder trial. i think preventive detention is not mandatory, it's discretionary, and i think manipulable. we all read how the 2 major colombiano drug dealers got house arrest with no passport until that hit the media and then they had to go back in a few months ago. turns out they had the right lawyer with connects to the judge. how did they figure how to hire him
6 months ago my chica's ex walked into her house, smacked her around, tore her blouse, threw her cell into the neighbors yard, jealous of us i think. i got there after it was over, took her to the police, he saw this from wherever he was, so he and his friend got into their car and went to the police behind us. she told them her version, i said nada other than pointing him out in his parked car 20 feet away. they didn't even write a report. her ex peeled off laughing and swearing at us. not very inspiring to a person who has spent his entire professional life in our cj system, with all of its flaws, but alot of people get alot of hard time in the estados. now i pay to park my car in an inaccessable area, i am sure that was his next target. do you remember that front page picture of diario many years ago of the poor cr copper hog tied with rope in some small town because he was doing his job. i think i know why there are these problems in cr, but it doesn't alleviate my worries, and although i agree there are worse places, it just seems like it is getting to that point, maybe i am wrong. but i did see a poll of ticos in la nacion that concluded they are scared too.
i brought my chica a motion sensor alarm, the house is two stories, and she too often leaves her back door open. last time i was there i didn't see it. i asked her where it was. she said she was worried about her amigas stealing it. go figure.
it seems like there are alot of home invasions in cr, maybe out of proportion due to media. another one in athens last night, the neighbor capped one of them, thank god, read it in am costa rica 8.9.11, also commenting on very high rate of home invasions there. i too am getting a little shaky about cr and i am a major city boy, all my life in the old hood. cr seems to be spinning out of control and i have been here alot, alot in 13 years. only bothered twice, once on avenida central at noon a doper tried ripping my cheap necklace off, and once last year leaving the downtown casino at 3am in a beach town, two dopers demanded dinero, gave them the gas and they scooted. i always carry the gas and a dagger for back-up. owner of the freebird told me his friend was walking down a downtown sj street in daytime and 3 guys jumped out of a car and jacked him. the guy was a tough type, fought back, they didn't get anything, but he got a busted jaw or something like that. in daytime. gringo target. i still love cr, but.
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