Those who are accused of breaking the laws under the Rules and Regulations will by trialed by the Lyrenzia Foundation. A voting will commence between the Councilors (Representivies) of the Lyrenzia Foundation to find the accused to be guilty or innocent. Those who are found guilty will be given a choice of going to prison or being labeled an Exile. Additional loss of voting rights for unserved prison time encourage the choice of prsion instead of Exile. Prison times and Exile times and definitions can be found in the section of Rules and Regulations.
Starting a Trial:
Anyone who wants to accuse someone of a crime can ask the Lyrenzia Foundation for a trial against that person. When the Lyrenzia Foundation has acknowledged the request, then it will declare a trial on the boards. The trial period will last 5 days.
Duration of the Trial Period:
During the 5 day period, anyone can present their testimony, evidence, opinions, on the public board or through any other communication with the Lyreniza Foundation, which can all be used by the judges to evaluate the case. If the accused pleads Guilty within the first 2 days of the trial, the time of their sentence will be reduced to 3/5 or 4/6 of the regular time.
End of a Trial:
A trial will end when:
- Anytime that the defendant pleads guilty
- When the Lyrenzia Foundation has delcared its verdict on the accused (which will usually take 5 full days unless all judges have already cast their vote)
- When the Guilty verdict is delivered to a normal crime, the accused will have 24 hours to choose Prison (by writing his choice on the board) before he will automatically be labeled an Exile for the corresponding period of time.
- When the Guitly verdict is delivered to a "steailng" type crime where payment is necessary to the victim, the accused will have 3 days to pay back the victim, or make arrangements with victim for later payment, or pay to Lyrenzia first if can't find victim. Payments and arrangments must be confirmed by a Lyrenzia Councilor. If payment or arrangements are not made, then accused will be labeled an Exile until payment or arrangements are made. After payments or arrangements are made, the same procedures of choosing prison/exile as described above will follow.
- The accused can still choose to go to Prison anytime during the period of his Exile or afterwards. An additional hour of prison time is added for each day that has been missed after the sentence.
- Those who have unserved prison time will not be able to exercise any of their voting rights until they served their prison time.
- Those who have served their prison sentence will only lose the right to participate in the next public voting.