• Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Don’t know about the US, but in most european places the statute of limitations limits when something can start being prosecuted - i.e., if you were indicted a minute before the statute is up, and the process takes years to complete, it doesn’t prevent the process from continuing.

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      Same here - they just have five days for this new head of the 300-person prosecutor’s office who handles a lot of government cases to create an illegal false prosecution scheme against the former head of the FBI and have their slip-and-fall-lawyer director get it in front of a judge and convince them it’s really important to do this in the equivalent of the next few minutes because Predisent Demented Rapist Babyhands is gonna cry.

      Technically possible. Practically - less so.