Jordan Steel court case

I just caught the end of it where he was awarded 2million and ruled not guilty of something as well by Lars.

Didn't this happen in Paleto during martial law? Martial law has very restricted rights for everyone including citizens. So I'm wondering if that was brought up during the case or if I'm wrong with what/where/when happened.

If anyone has some info that would be great.

Also, while I thought 5k awards and less for rights violations was crazy, 2mil seems absolutely insane and doesn't seem to take into account the economy status at all. But hey, I guess this will just accelerate the issues on the server which will be funny to watch at least.