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Old Jun 4, 2015 | 7:15 pm
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Originally Posted by saizai
Not quite true. You are probably a federal felon. It's just a question of finding something to charge you with.

However, after (if) you win the criminal case, you could sue them back for malicious prosecution, though that's very hard to win — and (roughly speaking) prosecutors have absolute immunity for what they personally do as part of their job.
No one is a felon until convicted.
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