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If I am on the jury at Bud's trial.


I am voting not guilty because the prosecution has to show victims in order for me to convict.

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Other investors, those who didn't break into offices and steal financial information that is not yet public, would be the victims.

I would assume you are kidding though.

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No, beancrisp is not kidding. Jurors let these defendants off the hook all the time because they invent their own elements of the crime regardless of the (lesser) requirements comprised within the insider trading statute(s).

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