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  Also, by pleading guilty at this point and in this manner, Bernie will be
  sentenced in 10 days and will most likely be released at that time since
  he has already served the time he would probably be sentenced to.
 
  Of course, the down side to this is the fact that the federal government
  will interpret this as a green light to lock up anyone in possession of
  simple electronic and/or computer tools. And, as has been so aptly
  demonstrated by the Ed Cummings case, if they choose to treat the suspect
  as a terrorist and lock him/her up for six months with no bail, they won't
  have much of a problem finding a judge willing to do this.
  
  Sentencing took place on October 10 and Ed Cummings was sentenced to
  seven months in federal prison. The seven month period ended 4 days later.

 
Okay, so he pled guilty to having a red box, and was sentenced to time served.
 
Bad enough that any of that happened in the first place.

Now comes the extra vile persecution part...
 
Three months later, Cummings was in court on violation of probation charges,
because of his guilty plea on the red box.

  When Cummings was originally put on probation years ago, the probation
  officer told him he thought the whole thing was a big waste of time.
  The only thing he was accused of, after all, was taking batteries out
  of a tone dialer that a cop was questioning him about. And the really
  ironic part was that Cummings wasn't even the person who took the
  batteries out - it was one of his friends. But he was not about to turn
  a friend in for something so absurd. After all, t

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