Criminal Code Is Overgrown, Legal Experts Tell Panel ...

Legal Experts Tell Panel

Criminal Code Is Overgrown, Legal Experts Tell Panel

The federal criminal code has grown so huge it ensnares everyday people who have no idea they are violating the law, a bipartisan group of legal experts told a House panel Tuesday, says the Wall Street Journal.

There are about 4,500 criminal statutes, says Edwin Meese, attorney general under President Ronald Reagan and now with the conservative Heritage

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furthermore to over 300,000 other regulations that don?t appear in the federal code however however carry essentially criminal penalties including prison,? he says.

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vast array of traps for the unwary that lurks out there in federal criminal rule is more extensive than most public realize.?

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts figures some 80,000 defendants are sentenced in federal court each year.

An article in December 12?s Wall Street Journal chronicled the conviction of one Maryland man for actions prosecutors said weren?t intentional. It explained how Lawrence Lewis ended up with a federal criminal record while trying to deal with clogged toilets at a military retirement home in Washington, D.C.

?He was subject to the same

guideline that would apply to somebody who knowingly, willingly dumped toxic materials into a navigable water,? said Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), who has introduced a bill to shrink the federal criminal code by a third and to define the level of criminal intent necessary to break the ruling.

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: Gary Fields and John R. Emshwiller, ?Criminal Code Is Overgrown, Legal Experts Tell Panel,? Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2011.

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An article in December 12?s Wall Street Journal chronicled the conviction of one Maryland man for actions prosecutors said weren?t intentional. It explained how Lawrence Lewis ended up with a federal criminal record while trying to deal with clogged toilets at a military retirement home in Washington, D.C.

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