• darmabum@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    His lawyer said:

    “It is a very dangerous proposition to hold someone criminally culpable and send them to prison without a finding that he or she ever acted in any way that he or she believed was against the law or wrong.” (emphasis on “believed” is mine)

    So, if I genuinely believe that banks have so much money it’s fine if I take a tiny bit, then it’s not illegal? Yeah, right.

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      If they ever decide that’s a viable defense, I suspect we’d have a lot more bank “traffic.”