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He committed the crime,and was successfully prosecuted for it. The personal favor was not the arrest, it was assigning an agent or two to investigate the case.
by rprasad 16y ago
He committed the crime,and was successfully prosecuted for it. The personal favor was not the arrest, it was assigning an agent or two to investigate the case.
This is not much different from asking your cop friend to give a ticket to your neighbor for parking too far out into the street, or asking the zoning board to investigate a neighbor's unapproved addition.
- FrankenTan 16y agoI have little to add beyond pointing out that this is discussed in the comment-section by more commenters than the one I am linking to now: edit: Replaced with better link: http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-police-arrested-movie-pirate-as-a-personal-favor-to-movie-official-110430/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29#comment-194852117 http://torrentfreak.com/wikileaks-police-arrested-movie-pira...
- rbanffy 16y ago> He committed the crime Unless I misread the article, camming was not a crime where he lived at the time he was arrested. What the article describes is the police harassing someone because someone with lots of resources asked politely for an illegal favor. Or, to put it more bluntly, the police decided it was OK to break the law because the MPAA asked for it.
- lukeschlather 16y agoHe committed no crime in Canada. If a US Citizen was jailed for making statements against the Chinese Communist party, he also would have "committed a crime" but the idea that anyone should be jailed if they commit something that is considered a crime somewhere is obviously fallacious.