article_snippet: Our concern here is limited to crimes against individual persons.
article_snippet: Our do not address, for example, crimes defining and punishing treason, espionage, terrorism, and drug kingpin activity, which are offenses against the State.
article_snippet: If it's a crime against the State, well, it's game on.
article_snippet: (Yet another reason why federal court is not a place where defendants want to be -- federal court's no secret defense attorneys would rather be in state court, where the penalties are less severe and where everything isn't illegal).
article_snippet: According to the Supreme Court, this is constitutional, as long as the defendant significantly participated in the felony and was recklessly indifferent to human life.
article_snippet: If your crime is against the state, however, the Supreme Court will give the state some leeway in killing citizens.