• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The terrorism charge is because that’s the only way New York state can charge first degree murder. Weird as hell law.

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      7 hours ago

      They want to punish him harder than the law would allow so they’re charging him with something he clearly didn’t do? Am I understanding that correctly?

      There are plenty of weird laws out there, but if the state is going to pull tricks like this, then do the laws mean anything or are they just weapons to be redefined at will?