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On 3/20/2024 7:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2024 at 3:15:33 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
> 
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>> Mar 19, 2024 at 8:26:17 PM PDT, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 2024-03-20 02:46:53 +0000, BTR1701 said:
>>   
>>>>> What if the cops held the door open for them. Is that still unauthorized?
>>
>>>> Lie: The rioters were invited into the Capitol by police
>>
>>> There is clear video of the police holding the door open for people who were
>>> later found guilty of unauthorized entry.
>>
>>> How does that logically hold up?
>>
>> With that evidence, why wasn't the charge of unauthorized entry
>> withdrawn or dismissed? Seems to me that both the prosecution and judge
>> were obligated to do so.
> 
> One would think. Obviously this only applies to a very small number of people
> who were there that day but for those to whom it did apply, it seems that as a
> matter of law one cannot be guilty of unauthorized entry if the people in
> charge of authorizing you let you in.

Indeed.  Not if one remains in the area he was let into.