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sfwriter

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3. Aren't penalties greater now though?

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Sun May 28, 2017, 11:20 PM

May 2017

I mean, doesn't a failure to do this preservation amount to an offense that is prosecutable in some form?

I do not know myself. It seems like the two crimes are in different leagues.

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