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How Many Federal Crimes Are There?
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2022
by Casey Bastian
published in Criminal Legal News
September, 2022, page 20
Filed under:
Criminal Justice,
Similar Acts or Crimes/Similarity in kind.
Location:
United States of America.
Nobody Knows for Sure
by Casey J. Bastian
If you were asked to identify the exact number of acts that are considered a federal “crime” in the U.S., could you do it? The answer is almost certainly no. No one, not even the federal government itself, knows the answer. Shockingly, ...
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