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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by themartorana on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:53PM (#10429983)
It's not that hard to understand. It's a framing issue. You could pull off the most complicated, Oceans 11 heist in history, and the prosecutor will dumb it down to you being, in the end, a "common thief."

These people are common thieves on an epic scale. They steal money, yes, but stability, security, futures, homes, and so on. But defense attorneys take the opportunity to make things seem complicated.

Just dumb it down for them.

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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by billmalarky on Thursday October 22, 2015 @12:30AM (#10430406)
Dumbing down the law is how we ended up with the war on drugs and "zero-tolerance" (policy not law) in schools.
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