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> In legal tradition, if there's not a law you broke, you can't be prosecuted for it. That’s incorrect. If there is not a law the prosecutor or plaintiff can
by dragonwriter 25d ago
> In legal tradition, if there's not a law you broke, you can't be prosecuted for it.
That’s incorrect.
If there is not a law the prosecutor or plaintiff can point to and say you broke, you can’t be prosecuted.
We wouldn’t need much legal process after a prosecution was initiated if it was impossible to prosecute without a law actually being broken.