Say for instance a man (we shall call him Dave) committed a crime, such as finding the address of someone in the witness protection program (we shall call him John) and subsequently sharing the information with a few people at a party. None of these people want to harm John, but none the less Dave has committed a crime and is sent to jail. Dave does his time and is released from jail and is enjoying his time free once again.

Later on, one of the people Dave told at the party decides to send John a letter with the words “hey lol”.

Who do you think should be arrested, if anybody? And why?

Fiasco Posted:

The lawyer who defended Dave and let him go to jail for something that isn’t a crime.

The guy who wrote a letter saying “hey lol” should be beaten to death but not arrested.

This is a hypothetical world where the law thinks that this is a crime.

What if nobody knew who sent the letter?

Bacchus Posted:

You’re making up the rules of this new world as you go. There can be no answer that you can’t negate with a new rule change.

I’m definitely sure you don’t get this.

Bacchus Posted:

Me, too. It’s still pretty very special. Log in to see images!

It’s only as very special as the person who’s reading it.

Given that the laws in your hypothetical scenario are different, the answer could be everyone or no-one.

Maybe not sending letters saying “hey lol” to people on the WPP is a crime, in which case everyone aside from that guy should be arrested.

More logical, is that Dave already did time for revealing John’s location, so he can’t be done for that again (unless the laws of Imaginaryville allow that) and sending someone a letter isn’t a crime (unless… again, Imaginaryville has laws about that) so no crime has been committed.

Like wtfmcnuggets said, having jailed the guy who revealed their secret, the WPP are pretty ****ing negligent for leaving the guy in the same place. If anyone’s at fault it’s them.