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jberryhill

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16. The statute is not that broad

Tue Feb 17, 2015, 01:13 PM

Feb 2015

A lot of states have laws which prevent a convicted criminal from profiting from the crime. In other words, you can't go out and rob a bank, get convicted of robbing the bank, and then write a book "How I Robbed the Bank" and profit from that book.

What this statute is aiming at is applying that same principle to persons who acted in concert with the person who committed the crime. For example, let's say you drove the getaway car, and were granted immunity from prosecution in order to convict me of robbing the bank. This law is aiming at not allowing you to write "How I Drove The Getaway Car For the Bank Robbery" and profit from it.

Incidentally, you can write the book, but you can't reap any financial reward for it.

It's not some general law about "works about crime" in general, or even works about particular crimes. It's about "works about crimes in which you were a participant or conspirator".

But I haven't seen the actual text, and I doubt most of the people commenting have done so either.

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ACLU prohibited from joining gang rap case [View all] marym625 Feb 2015 OP

I agree. TexasMommaWithAHat Feb 2015 #1

wish I knew what to do about marym625 Feb 2015 #4

I don't think that's justified. Yo_Mama Feb 2015 #2

Thank you. n/t marym625 Feb 2015 #3

There's no right of third parties to file briefs in trials jberryhill Feb 2015 #5

True marym625 Feb 2015 #6

If they allowed amicus briefs on one side, they'd have to allow them on the other onenote Feb 2015 #7

I don't have an issue with that marym625 Feb 2015 #9

Do you have a link to the text of the statute in question? jberryhill Feb 2015 #12

yes marym625 Feb 2015 #19

That does not appear to the be the correct one jberryhill Feb 2015 #26

That's what was cited in the ACLU article marym625 Feb 2015 #27

Unless it is this part here: jberryhill Feb 2015 #30

That's it marym625 Feb 2015 #32

So? jberryhill Feb 2015 #34

except that freedom of speech marym625 Feb 2015 #37

The law doesn't prohibit writing or publishing a song jberryhill Feb 2015 #41

How is writing a song years before a shooting marym625 Feb 2015 #42

It probably isn't jberryhill Feb 2015 #44

my issue is with both marym625 Feb 2015 #48

Actually, a better example of how this can be abused marym625 Feb 2015 #62

That's it marym625 Feb 2015 #29

Read the second sentence of the OP. merrily Feb 2015 #38

So? merrily Feb 2015 #33

That's true - but this is a novel prosecutorial theory, and if a conviction occurred, Yo_Mama Feb 2015 #13

...and on appeal, that would be an appropriate thing to do jberryhill Feb 2015 #14

Good thing Jim Croche ain't still around hootinholler Feb 2015 #8

OMFD! marym625 Feb 2015 #10

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ya know marym625 Feb 2015 #20

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interesting marym625 Feb 2015 #25

Except the UK wasn't involved in Vietnam jberryhill Feb 2015 #28

like that would stop the US marym625 Feb 2015 #31

The statute is not that broad jberryhill Feb 2015 #16

Yes marym625 Feb 2015 #21

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The law and the case are atrocious, Ms. Toad Feb 2015 #17

I get that marym625 Feb 2015 #22

Yet another example... gregcrawford Feb 2015 #18

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or, and this is just an idea, marym625 Feb 2015 #54