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A comment on U.S. Attorney Moves to Dismiss Murder-For-Hire Charges Against Ross Ulbricht. Parent comment

Re:U.S. Attorney Moves to Dismiss Murder-For-Hire Charges Ag... by Analemma_ on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @11:11AM (#17758629)
The headline and opening sentence are worded to try and fool you into thinking that it's an Attorney General (i.e., the state) initiating this motion; it's actually just some random lawyer.
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Re:U.S. Attorney Moves to Dismiss Murder-For-Hire Charges Ag... by Tomte on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @11:16AM (#17758670)
You're confused. Attorneys General of the states don't matter, because this is a federal thing ("IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT", as the motion says on top.).

And the top prosecutor in the federal system for a state is called... the "U.S. Attorney".

It's certainly not some random attorney who happens to hold U.S. citizenship.

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