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		rdl on April 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 3rd Circuit vacates Weev's conviction [pdf] I wondered why they couldn't use the (relatively small amount of) drugs they found when they raided him in Arkansas to, under Arkansas state law, fuck him somehow.

jrockway on April 11, 2014 [–]

Because the federal prosecutors don't get a promotion when someone is charged with a state crime.

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