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Hacker dodges FOUR HUNDRED YEARS in cooler for SCANNING sites

Doctor Syntax Silver badge

"I do find it mind-boggling that the US justice system manages to find 44 different names for basically a single offence."

It doesn't say they did. There were 18 counts of one thing & 15 of another. That's 3/4 of them under just two headings.

Presumably you've no great experience of how courts work.

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