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« on: January 26, 2010, 09:56:54 AM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t8v5MrqPEM&feature=related#movie_player

@03:08 Marc references compulsory jury service, and advocates jurors learn that there are two elements to "the body of a crime" or "corpus delecti". Victimless crimes do not satisfy either element of a crime - the cause (criminal intent) or the effect (of harm to a specific individual).
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