Arizona's Gambling Battle: 1

The American justice system is not very loose on their enforcement of unlawful online casinos and gambling. Judges are not easy on their cases, even when they involve gambling-rings. The prosecutors of a case in Maricopa county in Arizona were sent back to the grand jury by the Superior Court judge due to the county prosecutor’s mistakes. The county prosecutor did not inform the original jury of some very important facts that needed to be presented in this online casino case. This caused the indictment to be postponed even longer. Talk about having to walk out of a room with your tail tucked between your legs.

This is not the first time we have seen something like this occur in the United States courtrooms. Maricopa County Attorney’s Office is no stranger to these kind of cases being thrown out including many online casino related cases. The judge who was responsible for throwing out a large amount of misdemeanor cases in his courtroom is Judge Roland Steinle. The reason why he threw out such a large amount of misdemeanor cases is because the stature of limitations had run out on the crimes affiliated with online casinos. The statute of limitations in the state of Arizona for a crime to be fully prosecuted is that of one year.

The newspaper that reported all of these online casino stories is The Arizona Republic. They reported that there were 30 defendants in all whose charges varied but totaled up to 130 felony and 80 misdemeanor charges. The charges placed on these individuals were mostly due to the person placing bets at Costa Rican online casinos. As of now, any type of online casino activity is illegal for anyone who lives in the United States with the exception of sports betting. That is the only type of acceptable online gambling in the eyes of the US Government and Uncle Sam.