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The relevant words being ‘deliberate’ and ‘willful’, meaning the prosecution will have to prove your intent beyond reasonable doubt.

If there is no crime to point to beyond misfiling, there will be no case for willful intent.




As someone else pointed out, those words seem ripe for exploitation by prosecutors looking for a plea-bargain.


As I have replied elsewhere, that’s only a problem if they have something else on you.

Legitimate businesses don’t have to stress about a clerical error landing them in jail.


Better to have a well written law on the side of the civilian than a badly written one that can be enforced on the whim of a bureaucrat. At least, that's the way I see it.


That doesn’t seem to be related to this topic in any obvious way.




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