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Oh, man. An attempted coverup is often punished harshly. Richard Nixon and Martha Stewart should have taught everyone that. How is this not obstruction of just
by PhantomGremlin 11y ago
Oh, man.
An attempted coverup is often punished harshly. Richard Nixon and Martha Stewart should have taught everyone that. How is this not obstruction of justice[1], or whatever Canada calls it?
Obstruction charges can also be laid
if a person alters, destroys, or conceals
physical evidence
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice
- zitterbewegung 11y agoCanada calls it the same thing. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Law/Offences/Obstructing_Justice http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Law/Offences/...
- jrockway 11y agoObstruction of justice might be punished less harshly than whatever the data they were encrypting implicates them in. Generally the best legal strategy is to not do anything illegal, but sometimes that window has already closed ;)
- nstoddar 11y agoWas this article just removed from the front page?