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At this point it is just an investigation. Nobody has been charged with anything. They have to find a law Facebook has broken first, and presumably establish en
by shhehebehdh 8y ago
At this point it is just an investigation. Nobody has been charged with anything. They have to find a law Facebook has broken first, and presumably establish enough evidence that they expect to succeed at a trial.
- badfrog 8y agoDoesn't a grand jury meet after charges have been filed? Or is federal different than state in that respect?
- iscrewyou 8y agoI thought grand jury meets before charges are filed so they can authorize access to documentation and such things?
- solomatov 8y agoIANAL, but grand juries do a lot of work before the charges are filled. For example, they check whether there's a probable cause for a search warrant.
- mehrdadn 8y agoDo you know how grand juries are selected? I find it weird that I've been selected for a trial jury a bunch of times but never a grand jury.
- solomatov 8y agoAFAIK, they are selected the same way as trial jury. I think the main problem is that there's less need for grand juries since they process information much more quickly than trial juries.
- Godel_unicode 8y agoGet a bigger hat, it's right there in the name.
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- rhizome 8y agoNo. After charges are filed you go to court. Grand jury votes on the charges.
- mic47 8y agoYeah, I was kind of writing that under assumption "if it would have been found criminal".
- solomatov 8y agoDo you have any idea what charges these may be? IFAIU, there're no laws which make it criminal to share information.
- dmitrygr 8y agoIf even a single byte leaked, I guess the charges can include being accessory to identity fraud?
- solomatov 8y agoCriminal charges assume intent, and it's very hard to think that facebook as a company had intent of committing identity fraud.
- dlegal 8y agoCrimes do not always require intent. It depends on what the statute says specifically.
- solomatov 8y agoYes, there're such crimes, but there aren't so many of them.
- dragonwriter 8y agoThere are lots of crimes that require a mental state less than intent (either recklessness or criminal negligence, mostly, though there are some strict liability crimes, and the weird case of “malice aforethought” for common law murder which is narrower than recklessness but just slightly broader than only intent.)
- solomatov 8y agoRecklessness and negligence require some understanding of what you are doing and that it's wrong. So, it's really hard to commit them by mistake.