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Great story, but they forgot to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone), the
by Ericson2314 6y ago
Great story, but they forgot to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_Death_(Yellowstone), the other candidate, but at a different scale.
- MichaelZuo 6y agoIn the real world it seems rather likely the presiding judge(s) would follow the spirit rather than the letter of the law.
- giantg2 6y agoBut how is that fair or logical? How can a subject be convicted of a law that was not violated? The subject has a responsibility to know the law, but how can they if it's not articulated in statute/code? The judiciary would be guessing as to why the legislature left out a specific condition, which would be essentially legislating from the bench. The spirit of the law is only invoked on the side of leniency (to my knowledge).
- Ericson2314 6y agoSee the article, where they 1/2 just happened with a plea bargain not to appeal so the issue would stay unaddressed. I don't mind judges doing this, but I do mind legislatures not fixing the problem once it's discovered. That's like regular devs not fixing the bugs "because the admins will just restart the program when it crashes in prod".