Rail Theft Soars in California

Re:Rail Theft Soars in California by jijji on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:18PM (#29960847)

Railroad theft sounds like a federal crime, the district attorney is partly to blame if they are charging these people under state trespassing laws instead of federal railroad laws [0]

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1991

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Re:Rail Theft Soars in California by 72736379 on Sunday January 16, 2022 @05:25PM (#29960917)

I'm no lawyer but wouldn't the Federal District Attorney need to charge them, not the City District Attorney? In other words, I don't think the City DA has the power to charge people under federal statutes, I imagine only federal DA's do.

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Re:Rail Theft Soars in California by jijji on Sunday January 16, 2022 @06:48PM (#29961694)

true

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