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js8today at 5:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Should it be relevant though? It seems to me like criminalization of thoughts. Even if they externalized into a diary.


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sumenotoday at 5:52 PM

If you write in your diary "I'm gonna kill her" and then she gets killed it's relevant

program_whiztoday at 5:52 PM

Depends, if you wrote a detailed confession with material non public facts, a jury can hear it and weigh the evidence.