"I have never in 18 years as a prosecutor seen the statute used that way.
Another sentenced four Sri Lankan bank robbers to beheading, invoking a Muslim statute used against bandits.
"There are all these proposals now to gut 17200," he said of the California statute used by Trevor.
He argued that the country's racism statute, used mostly to protect blacks, did not apply to Jews because they are not a race.
But Justice Department officials argued that the court had misinterpreted a statute used to allow the government to go forward in cases involving national security secrets.
Its purpose is to improve the outrageous statute used to prosecute Swartz, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which makes much of the American population potential felons and entrusts our continued freedom to prosecutorial forbearance.
The ensuing discussion ranged from the original 19th-century statute used to determine the design of stoves and furnaces, to comparisons with other design icons where form was seen as just as valuable as function, such as the Volkswagen Beetle.
They were charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute — used to apprehend criminal organizations like the Mafia — and accused of conspiring in order to receive the bonuses tied to high test scores.
