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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95

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<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message 
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> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 11:23:43 AM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote:
>
>> The "ad-hoc" part is constant, however.  No one ever sits down and 
>> rewrites
>> the law code from scratch, much less tries to think of something that 
>> might
>> be better.  It's a major effort just to get obsolete laws off the books;
>> usually police won"t arrest and prosecutors won't indict because of them,
>> and if they do juries often don't convict or judges throw out the 
>> charges.
>> However, they are still on the books and someone could be sent to jail
>> based on them.
>
> Sometimes prosecutors dig up an old law to nail somebody
> when they have trouble utilizing a current law.

That is so uncommon that it makes the news when it happens. 

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Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-07-23 09:06 -0700
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "JHY" <JHY5566@nospam.com> - 2015-07-24 05:36 +1000
  Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-07-23 15:12 -0500
    Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-07-24 07:56 -0700
      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-07-24 10:34 -0500
      Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-07-24 11:06 -0500
        Re: 1973--TI 8 digit electric calculator--$99.95 "JHY" <JHY5566@nospam.com> - 2015-07-25 03:59 +1000

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