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Court Rules

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COURTHOUSE RULES
Supreme Court
  1. It is the highest judicial body in the United States of America.
  2. It is responsible for appeals and may take over important cases.
  3. It presides over the District Court.
District Court
  1. Responsible for handling of day-to-day cases, both civil and criminal.
Cases Against Government
  1. Time frames:
    1. A person has 5 days to file a complaint to respective agency from the day that the incident occurred;
    2. A government agency then has 14 days to resolve the complaint and respond to the complainant;
    3. The complainant then has 7 days from the event described under point 1.2. to file for a civil lawsuit;
  2. A person must first file a complaint (within time frame described under point 1.1) to the respective agency and attempt to settle with the agency before filing a civil lawsuit;
  3. If the complainant and the agency fail to come to agreement in regards to the settlement offer, the complainant may file a civil lawsuit (within the time frame described under point 1.3)
  4. The complainant must justify how the offered settlement may be unreasonable for them to the court, and should the court find the settlement reasonable, the complainant may be forced to accept the offered settlement by the court
Behavior in Court
  1. All parties must behave in a civil manner.
  2. The spectators may not interfere or disturb the proceeding in any way, shape, or form.
  3. It is prohibited to carry weapons inside the courthouse, exception given to law enforcement agency officials.
Parties in a Court Hearing
  1. Each party may be represented by a legal representative.
  2. If a person cannot afford a legal representative, one must be appointed by the government.
Criminal Prosecutions
  1. The FBI is responsible for federal prosecutions, on behalf of the federal government.
  2. The SAPD is responsible for state prosecutions, on behalf of the state government.
OUT OF CHARACTER RULES
Recording Devices
  • Government CCTV cameras
    • Every government owned building is equipped with interior and exterior CCTV. Regardless whether it's visibly there as an object or not.
    • The footage of these CCTV cameras is saved for a period of six months.
    • The footage of these CCTV cameras may be obtained through search warrants through law enforcement agencies.
    • The footage of these CCTV cameras is uploaded on a government server.
    • These CCTV cameras cannot be manually toggled on or off.
  • Private CCTV cameras
    • Every house which has installed furniture CCTV camera is considered to have CCTV camera. If it's not there via furniture, then it's not existent.
    • The footage of these CCTV cameras is saved for a period of three months.
    • The footage of these CCTV cameras may be obtained through search warrants through law enforcement agencies.
    • The footage of these CCTV cameras is uploaded on a server located in your property.
  • Government dashboard cameras
    • Every marked police vehicle (including the FBI rancher) is equipped with a 360° dashboard camera.
    • Every marked fire department vehicle (including the FBI rancher) is equipped with a front-facing dashboard camera. Ambulances with a back-interior camera.
    • These dashboard cameras cannot be toggled on or off manually.
    • These dashboard cameras are encased in protective casing in case of car crashes.
    • The footage of these dashboard cameras may be obtained by the government agency's supervisors or through search warrants.
    • The footage of these dashboard cameras is uploaded on the government servers.
  • Civilian dashboard cameras
    • Every person that wishes to roleplay having dashboard camera is required to roleplay installing one on the specific vehicle.
    • You must memorize the date you've done the above roleplay or screenshot it and save it for future use.
    • You must specify when installing this dashboard camera whether it's manual or automatic, and whether it records 360° or not.
    • The footage of these dashboard cameras may be obtained by the government agency's supervisors or through search warrants.
    • The footage of these dashboard cameras is saved onto the dashboard camera's memory card.
  • Body Cameras
    • Every Police Department official on duty is issued a body worn camera upon going on duty.
    • These body worn cameras cannot be toggled on or off manually.
    • The footage of these body worn cameras may be obtained by the government agency's supervisors or through search warrants.
    • The footage of these body worn cameras is saved onto the body worn camera's memory card.
  • Actual Cameras
    • This is considered the actual camera you get from /phone -> camera.
    • The footage of these may be obtained through seizure of the camera device itself.
  • Other Devices (spy cameras, ...)
    • A person is required to roleplay setting up these specific recording devices once per life. That means, after you died, you have to set it up again.
    • Specifications must be mentioned in the roleplay. Such as whether it records only audio, or audio-video, and the type of recording device.
Truthfulness
  • It is required that all parties are truthful in an out-of-character manner in the cases, especially if asked about the events that occurred and so on.
  • Lying in an out-of-charater manner in the court will result in dismissal of the case and a server warning.
  • Out-of-character lies are in example:
    • Claiming that CCTV footage would not show you shooting somebody, whilst in reality, you did shoot somebody.
    • Claiming your property had CCTV installed at the time of incident, whilst you installed it after the fact.
  • Administrative logs may be invoked to verify truthfulness in specific cases.
Court Roleplay
  • Courts are a roleplay setting. All court cases must be roleplayed. Out-of-character comments must be placed between (( )) brackets.
  • Out-of-character comments must be kept to a minimum and used when important.
  • No weapons may be taken inside court houses. Other forms of unrealistic acts are prohibited.
  • Usage of AI and/or AI tools to file, comment, roleplay in Court is strictly prohibited since case CV-127 SAPD v. SA-GOV. (We are not looking to produce real life court cases)
  • Relevance of cases that are outside Valrise's existing court cases is not allowed and will not be considered as reference in any case, i.e: Carpenter v. United States.
Name Changes and Court Evasion
  • In roleplay, name changes are logged by the government, in City Halls.
  • Law enforcement may obtain your history of names through search warrant in City Halls.
  • If you are prosecuted under one name, and you change your name, the case will proceed regardless.
  • If you wish to character kill to avoid consequences of the prosecution, you must obtain management approval and accept loss of certain % of networth.
  • Management may enforce certain court rulings when deemed fit such as seizure of properties.
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