[jiggyboy]

''There can be no question that the government has charged a single conspiracy offense multiple times, in separate counts, when in law and in fact only one [alleged] crime has been committed,'' Cooke wrote in an eight-page ruling.

This seems to have become the norm at every level of the judiciary over the past decade or so. I was on a jury a couple of years ago for a guy charged with robbery, some other level of robbery, burglary, some other level of burglary, larceny, and about three other charges. They all amounted to seven ways, some contradicting each other as a matter of law, of describing a single act of breaking a window and stealing a TV.

[Lazamataz]

This seems to have become the norm at every level of the judiciary over the past decade or so. I was on a jury a couple of years ago for a guy charged with robbery, some other level of robbery, burglary, some other level of burglary, larceny, and about three other charges. They all amounted to seven ways, some contradicting each other as a matter of law, of describing a single act of breaking a window and stealing a TV.

Well, you've gotta understand.

It was a really nice TV.