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Re:Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evadi... by tptacek on Friday November 29, 2019 @10:10PM (#21668276)
5 is the high side, not the low side, according to the sentencing guidelines (which directly capture the fact that it's North Korea he helped; the sentencing guidelines for 50 USC 1705 practically read as if they were written specifically for North Korea).
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Re:Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evadi... by tomjakubowski on Saturday November 30, 2019 @02:45AM (#21669022)
Where do you see five years as the high end? 50 USC §1705 says "not more than 20 years".

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1705

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Re:Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evadi... by tptacek on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:17AM (#21670547)
That's not how sentences work. Read the federal sentencing guidelines.
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Re:Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evadi... by MertsA on Saturday November 30, 2019 @05:18PM (#21672461)
Not to nitpick, but it's not like the sentencing guidelines are binding. The judge can still choose to hand down a sentence outside of what the sentencing guidelines prescribe. Case and point, Paul Manafort and his "otherwise blameless life".
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Re:Arrest Of U.S. Citizen For Assisting North Korea In Evadi... by tptacek on Saturday November 30, 2019 @06:25PM (#21672715)
I'm just going to say that the sentencing guidelines capture 50 USC 1705 directly and are written in such a way as to suggest that North Korea is exactly what they were thinking of.
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