Re:A harassment campaign on Goodreads
by sb057 on Monday January 06, 2020 @11:36PM
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Similarly, a person can't be held (directly) legally responsible for receiving illicit material via postal service (at least in the United States). Otherwise, you could simply ship drugs to their home address and get them charged with any number of crimes.
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However, a person can be legally raided for the purposes of recovering said drugs, even if they have no idea that they possess them after picking the package up. Furthermore, even if the police has advance knowledge of the package and could have intercepted it earlier, they can still allow delivery and follow up with the raid, just so that they can take the recipient into custody. One prominent example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor...