Crime Of Inaction Leaves Justices Mulling Legal 'Absurdities'

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with whether an alleged mobster can be guilty of a murder-for-hire scheme if he did not physically participate in the botched hit job, with one justice remarking that both parties' interpretations of a "violent" crime of inaction could produce absurd results.

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