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He wasn't the fall guy, he was the other half of the transaction - and only one half got convicted.
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* Another is the Statute of Limitations; the guilty go free because too much time passed before they were criminally charged. This won't work in a British-style criminal trial (as time does not run out on the Crown) but does work stateside. It also works well in civil court.
* Bankrupting an opponent in legal fees is also a good tactic in civil cases, especially ones which go through multiple levels of appeal or where a huge corporation is suing a private individual.
* The Teapot Dome scandal is remarkable in that one man was convicted of bribing the US Secretary of the Interior, while in a separate trial the Secretary of the Interior was acquitted on
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