Ben, as usual, you are guessing.
I had 17 criminal prosecutions against me, and I m a lawyer, for using a legal institute called pronto despacho that is an ultimatum to the judge before starting legal actions.
I was found non guilty in 5 seconds but, however, the Prosecutor accused me of aggravated coercion that has automatic preventive prison. So, I faced the risk of jail for doing what you happily advice in your ignorance.
You were not very clear.
You say that you were found not guilty in 5 seconds - does that not indicate that the case against you was frivolous?
As I see it there are 2 options:
1) The case was without merit, and was brought in an effort to cow you.
2) The case
had merit, and but then how did you get off in 5 seconds?
If (1) is correct, and people can bring a patently frivolous lawsuit against you and still you have to hire legal heavyweights to defend yourself, that sucks. I’ll go further - it’s basically an indictment of this country’s legal system. If seeking relief via the courts is lawful, to threaten to do so must be as well. If the activities in question are lawful, then there is no threat. As they say in English - “You bring your lawyers, I’ll bring mine”.
If, as is implied by what you are righting, the prosecutor brought an obviously inane charge against you in an attempt to get you in jail preventively, 17 times to boot, that would have consequences in any normal legal system. If here that is not the case, then that is one more example of how this is a lawless place masquerading as a developed one.
This is the difference between people who imaging that they litigate on line and professionals.
Not sure you noticed, but nobody here is trying to litigate anything. Nobody - except, apparently, you - seems to think we are in court.
In any normal place, threatening litigation - especially on excellent grounds - is not only legal, but normal. The reason we have laws at all, is for the option to exist to make recourse to them. And that should apply to public servants as much or more as to anybody else. They work for the people.
If you have experience to share regarding Argentina being an insane place where threatening to sue for abuse of power can get you in jail, we are grateful for you noting that. But childish insults are not necessary. They do not make you look any smarter.
Some explanation, on the other hand, would make your commentary far more valuable. And again, you did not address the underlying question.
As I said before: “On its face, [the intimidation clause you reference] refers to threats of force or other unlawful acts, not threat of proper legal action.”
- Is that incorrect, and were the charges brought against you therefore proper? (But then how did you get off “in 5 seconds”?)
- Or is that in fact correct, and the prosecutors you talk about were pulling a dirty trick?
- And in that case, why are those prosecutors not subject to serious sanction? In the US, pulling shit like that could get you disbarred. Or at the very least, censured and/or sanctioned.
It is not an unimportant distinction, but you do not address it at all.