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Lon Horiuchi couldn't be convicted because the state's prosecutor dropped it.


... The feds invoked supremacy clause to squash the case long enough it was too stale by the time it wound through appeals. The special prosecutor did not at all want to drop it and said as much.

The supremacy clause was what ultimately killed it, by being useful enough to delay cases to the point they're dead.


That’s fair.




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