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expedition32 69 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require c...

This is why crimes used to have prosecution time limits. Nobody expected eye witness accounts to surface after 40 years. But DNA is eternal.

DiscourseFan 69 days ago | [–]

DNA is not eternal, but neither is anyone's memory trustworthy for that long.

cucumber3732842 69 days ago | [–]

Prosecution time limits and those pesky rights people have is why so much stuff that would've been simple misdemeanors 70+yr ago is now "administrative" and "civil" law.

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