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A Flesh and Blood Man

2008-07-17 13:44:52.690394+02 by petronius 0 comments

An odd story: several black Baltimore drug dealers before the federal courts for murder and traficking cite white supremecist legal theories to claim the courts have no jurisdiction over them. This is an unusual turn in the murky world of "folk law", mostly bogus legal theories promulgated by a ragtag bunch of tax protestors and survivalist types. For example, these guys claim that the names on the indictments are only words on paper while they are "flesh and blood people", so they don't apply. The theories never make it through the courts, but in this case it mayu have saved these guys from the death penalty.

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