In a personal injury case, punitive damages, if awarded, are
calibrated to cause pain to the defendant. Rich defendant, higher punitives. In
some European countries criminal are sentenced to “day fines,” confiscating,
each day, so much of the defendant’s income as would reduce all defendants,
rich or poor, to roughly the same standard of living from income: something a
little above subsistence.
To have any effect on Trump’s behavior and to have any hope
of securing witnesses and court personnel from intimidation, a meaningful deterrent
is needed. If it is financial in nature, it has to be a high dollar amount.
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