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I’m surprised they actually got the mistrial. Prosecutorial misconduct is one of the fundamental problems facing this country…it transcends many issues dear to the left and the right.

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Backpage shut down its adult services section back in January 2017. The defendants may have gotten a mistrial eventually, but they've lost years of their lives.

exactly. And their recourse against that over reach is what?

The backpage attack tracks with every other government action that uses law enforcement for moralizing.

Can someone eli5 why is this a mistrial instead of acquit? If the prosecutor prosecuted on the wrong charge and the judge agrees on that it's the wrong charge, the defendants should get acquitted?

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