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High court and low court? What are you talking about?


Not officially, but in practice, there's a "high court" for those entities (corporations, people, etc) with a lot of money. Defendants either don't get charged with as serious crimes for the same or worse actions, and those few found guilty don't receive equal punishment. In practice, there's a "low court" for the less well off entities. Laws are applied far more broadly (any excuse for a guilty verdict) and far greater punishments are assessed.

Again, this distinction is somewhat de facto, rather than any official status that mean "use the high court" or "subject to the low court". It's just a double standard that seems to be in place unofficially.




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