“America’s judges still cling to the proposition that it’s perfectly fine to lock people up for doing something they had no idea was illegal. But it’s not fine, and the justifications for that palpably unfair rule have only grown more threadbare with time.”
Read more: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/law-complicated-why-shouldnt-ignorance-be-excuse
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