A document degrading paper intake system is forced on pro se in SC.
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How structural architecture degrades justice before a case is ever heard.
While SC licensed attorneys file electronically in seconds, in a system that's available essentially 24/7/365, self-represented litigants fight traffic, parking, and security gates to submit paper within the narrow window of court hours.
Pro Se Plaintiffs McNeil and Poyer of McNeil v SAC 181, LLC et al found their filings have been frequently degraded by being scanned at a bitonal black-and-white setting originally intended for low bandwidth fax machines, turning full-color evidence into splotches of ink and, in every case, removing the ability to search and copy text without OCR.
A barren representation desert can contribute to a high percentage of pro se litigants by necessity, leaving a massive public queue funneled toward a systemically obstructed legal system.
Virginia is the only other state where legislature elects judges, and SC adds the filter of the largely lawyer-legislator controlled Judicial Merit Selection Committee (JMSC) as gatekeepers for judges some of them may try cases in front of.
A standard cell phone camera captures images in 24-bit true color (over 16 million colors). A clean grayscale scan uses 8-bit depth (256 distinct shades of gray). A 1-bit setting allows exactly two values per pixel: 0 (absolute black) or 1 (absolute white). There is no gray, no shadow, and no color gradients.
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