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| | Guardian Unlimited | | Caught in the act |
 | | The Justice Department recently decided to bring Patriot Act charges against two Palestine-born residents in a case that is 16 years old, was originally brought under a law rescinded by Congress as unconstitutional, and was dismissed by a California appeals court. |
 | | He was charged under state laws and also under a Patriot Act prohibition on weapons of mass destruction, thus boosting his possible sentence from a maximum of seven years to a minimum of 35 years. |
 | | Another case in the spirit of the Patriot Act happened in North Carolina, where Martin Dwayne Miller, 24, was arrested for running a methamphetamine lab, under a state law passed shortly after the act outlawing manufacture of chemical weapons. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /law/story/0,3605,1057338,00.html (1655 words) |
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