In the hearings on Thursday, the men were not charged under specific statutes.
It was all perfectly legal, as long as the detainees were charged under immigration statutes within 24 hours.
The problem becomes clear: if a defendant is charged under both statutes for the same crime, it is easier to imprison her for twenty years than for five.
Mr. Lavy was not charged then, but in 1995, after the Oklahoma City bombing, he was arrested by the F.B.I. in a raid on his cabin in Arkansas and charged under antiterrorism statutes with possessing ricin.
Nine leaders of a violent Colombian drug cartel have been charged under racketeering statutes with smuggling more than 1.2 million pounds of cocaine worth $10 billion into the United States, federal officials said here on Thursday after an indictment was unsealed.
President Johnson was furious when he learned of Mrs. Chennault's intervention, and considered having her charged under federal statutes with criminally interfering with the conduct of foreign affairs.
576, 95 L.Ed. 774 (1951), a police officer was charged under federal statutes with extracting confessions by force and thus, under color of law, depriving the prisoner there involved of rights, privileges, and immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States, contrary to 18 U.S.C. 242.
And she added, according to The Times, "All of the people who got charged under these statutes had not very much power: homeless people, gay people, marginalized people, vulnerable people".
In the past, cop-watchers have been charged under wiretapping statutes for filming arrests; one man, Simon Gilk of Boston, sued the police after such an arrest and, with the help of the ACLU, got the First Circuit Appeals Court to affirm the right to record the cops.
Mr. Capriola has not been charged under that statute.
