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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by mtgx on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:09PM (#10428722)
The only reason the juries "don't understand it" is because the prosecutor doesn't want them to understand. Remember that recent cop Grand Jury indictment where the prosecutor had to "explain" for 3 weeks how...I guess the cop wasn't guilty? While in non-cop indictments, they somehow manage to indict people much sooner.
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by morgante on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:26PM (#10429223)
> While in non-cop indictments, they somehow manage to indict people much sooner.

What does that have to do with TFA at all?

I'm 100% certain that the prosecutors of financial crimes are absolutely trying to get the jury to understand. A win in this space is great for your career and they have every reason to hope for it.

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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by scott_s on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @05:27PM (#10428829)
You sincerely think that the prosecutors in the cases mentioned in the article purposefully made the case hard for the jury to understand, for the explicit purpose of losing the case?
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by coldtea on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:18PM (#10429179)
No, for the explicit purpose of making some good money off the table.
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by scott_s on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:24PM (#10429214)
I don't follow. How are the prosecutors making money by losing a case that they decided to prosecute?
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by Kliment on Thursday October 22, 2015 @04:10AM (#10430977)
I'm not coldtea but the implication appears to be that they are being bribed
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by coldtea on Thursday October 22, 2015 @05:07AM (#10431172)
Yes. Don't know about those specific cases but I know places where this happens a lot, and especially when it comes to white collar crime, but also mafia-with-a-legit-front kind of affairs.
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by coldtea on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:50PM (#10433674)
>This is a conversational dead-end because there is both no evidence for it in this case, and no way to disprove it.

Doesn't that make it a conversational endless road?

Being able to prove or disprove it would make it a dead-end, getting the conversation to stop :-)

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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by scott_s on Thursday October 22, 2015 @01:43PM (#10433613)
This is a conversational dead-end because there is both no evidence for it in this case, and no way to disprove it.
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