{"id":911,"date":"2004-05-09T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=911"},"modified":"2018-08-14T05:56:35","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T10:56:35","slug":"911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/09\/911\/","title":{"rendered":"Readings in Prosecutorial Overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate published a couple good articles on Friday dealing with prosecutors and their new cudgels with which to beat the citizenry into proper obsequiousness.  Read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2100066\/\" target=\"new\">Everyday Obstruction: The government finds a new way to nail old tax evaders<\/a><br \/>How prosecutors nail people, like Martha Stewart, Frank Quattrone, and Jayson Williams with obstruction when they cannot make a case for an actual, you know, <i>crime<\/i>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2100055\/\" target=\"new\">Zero to Life: The injustice of white-collar sentencing rules<\/a><br \/>\nHow a &#8220;fraud&#8221; that causes Microsoft stock price to fall less than a nickel could cost the perpetrator life in prison.<\/ul>\n<p>Read them, and weep that your legislators will forever more empower prosecutors until such time as we&#8217;re all in prison, and they have to go after each other for wrongful prosecution and corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate published a couple good articles on Friday dealing with prosecutors and their new cudgels with which to beat the citizenry into proper obsequiousness. Read: Everyday Obstruction: The government finds a new way to nail old tax evadersHow prosecutors nail people, like Martha Stewart, Frank Quattrone, and Jayson Williams with obstruction when they cannot make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23357,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/23357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}