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> So right now you could literally break into someone's home, knock them unconscious, and then steal their laptop, but yet still get more jail time for "hacking" into their laptop than any of the previous crimes.

Can you provide some examples? And not sentencing guidelines or what the prosecutors asked for; actual sentence lengths that were actually served by people convicted solely of computer crimes vs. time served for breaking and entering and assault and battery and theft.



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