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Re:A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead by drdeadringer on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:50AM (#27722435)
> The threat about driving is hilarious. So she drives, gets caught driving or speeding. Who are they then going to charge? Whatever answer you come up with, the response will be: But she's dead. Now what? They'll have to charge her. Won't that be hilarious: charging a dead person. For driving. Take that to court.

Say this happens in America.

The defendant files for habeas corpus.

"Here I am, Your Honor, filing for my own body to be produced for trial. Shall I leave and walk back in or will it suffice for your bailiff to say that I am in fact standing in front of you making this motion? Thank you."

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Re:A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead by nkssy on Saturday July 03, 2021 @11:57AM (#27722498)
Yet this likely wouldn't help. This is how messed up the whole thing can get.

From the article: In 2013, an Ohio judge ruled that Donald E Miller Jr would have to stay legally deceased, even though Miller was sitting in the courtroom to hear his fate, perfectly healthy. He had been declared dead in 1994.

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Re:A woman's battle to prove she isn't dead by SideburnsOfDoom on Sunday July 04, 2021 @08:34AM (#27729178)
> So she drives, gets caught driving or speeding. Who are they then going to charge?

A Jane Doe, who is also refusing to identify herself, by falsely giving the name of a dead person.

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