Friday, January 13, 2012

Ignorance of the Law is No Excuse, Unless You're a Cop or Prosecutor

You know the line, "ignorance of the law is no excuse", you can go to jail for simply breaking some arcane and arbitrary a rule called a "law" where you harmed no-one, but if you plead you never knew it was "against the law" you go to jail anyway.

But if a cop arrests someone mistakenly, because he didn't know the law, and jails someone and levels serious charges over his head for months, the cop doesn't even get a slap on the wrist.

The first 3 1/2 minutes of this video demonstrates.

"Citizens are supposed to know the law front to back, but the people actually charged with enforcing it aren't expected to know the law."

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