“Andrew Cuomo, who illegally collected an eagle feather, shouldn’t be punished for accidentally breaking the law, and neither should anyone else.” [Jacob Sullum, Reason; earlier on the legal pitfalls of found or traded eagle feathers here, here, etc.]
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Of course, if he were to be prosecuted, it would be poetic justice, given his weaponization of the regulatory process.
I was appalled by the John Edwards prosecution for campaign finance violations. But then I remembered how Edwards abused the court system to ruin the careers of doctors who had done nothing wrong. And then I only just thought that the criminal charges were bogus.
As the Reason article notes, he is fine with doing unto others over inadvertent or trivial offenses. The best way to correct a bad law or legal principle is to vigorously enforce it against its proponents.