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@Alric

Isn’t this irrelevant? Criminal charges are brought by the state, not an individual. Seems like another instance of the media myth about charges and what not.

And that is what happened in this case. The mother didn’t want her arrested, but the police decided they were going to do it anyway.

[Abraxas]

@Mr_Goodtimes

I’m not seeing the problem here. I think parents these days don’t understand the importance of having a nice car your freshman year in college.

There are a lot of things we dont know here. Did the 17 year old have a job to pay for the car(she was asking her mother to co sign, not buy)? Did the car have low miles? What kind of rims? Sound system? It sounds to me like her mother was being a little stingy with the credit and not recognizing her daughters accomplishments.

:lol: love it

[ZRH]

@Alric

Isn’t this irrelevant? Criminal charges are brought by the state, not an individual. Seems like another instance of the media myth about charges and what not.

It’s more journalistic stupidity. “press charges” is an old term relating to prosecution. There is no compulsory public prosecution in the US (otherwise we wouldn’t have plea bargaining). It is at the discretion of the individual victim or the public prosecutor to bring a formal accusation to a grand jury/court (pressing the charge).

In the 18th/19th century the Attorney General’s office didn’t handle all prosecutions, you as a victim could hire a lawyer to file a criminal accusation with a grand jury/court. You still can in a lot of places.

ETA: I looked this up once because I was wondering too.