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Answering Some of Your Questions About Criminal Law

They're reasonable questions. And I have answers.

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Patterico
Nov 20, 2021
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Recently, some of you asked questions about various workings of our criminal law. None of the questions was amenable to a simple answer, but I wanted to answer them. Hence this missive.

I’ll issue this with a heaping helping of the usual caveats. I am a lawyer, but I am not a defense lawyer and I am sure as heck not

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