| Posted by: MrStiv at May 31, 2002, 9:58 am | | Topic: What's the status of the legality of online gambling? Forum: Winner Online |
Quote: Originally Posted by Got2Bet:
MrSti -
I'd love to see him try to defend that position in court - so ask him why no one has ever been prosecuted anywhere in the US for casino gambling online?
Probably because it's not worth the effort. It'd be much easier to prosecute, say, an illegal craps game physically taking place in this state, but it's never done because the police obviously don't think it's worth the time and resources. In short, they don't care.
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If he tells you it's a gray area, that would work. But if he tells you it's illegal, he should be able to justify that with proof based on either Federal or state law.
He looked up the state statute regarding gambling and then wrote me back: "BLANK [my state] has a statute that makes it a misdemeanor for any one to operate or to bet on any game of chance, excepting certain bingos and raffles. So anyone gambling at home on the Internet would be in iolation
of this statute even if the bet were being placed on a computer server in another location."
Even so, I don't think anyone needs to worry ery much unless their state has a specific law against Internet gambling b/c a prosecutor wouldn't waste the time and money it would take to prosecute this type of misdemeanor. And about the only way anyone would get caught would be to turn themselves in.
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