Or did something they could be put in jail for. This statement is mostly true, according to PolitiFact, fact checking a statement from a Yale Law School professor.
[Stephen] Carter[, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School] said that more than 70 percent of American adults have committed a crime that could lead to imprisonment. Based on a strictly technical reading of existing laws, the consensus among the legal experts we reached is that the number is reasonable. Way more than a majority of Americans have done something in their lives that runs afoul of some law that includes jail or prison time as a potential punishment.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfac...out-70-us-have-done-something-could-put-us-j/
It's a sobering warning against self-righteousness and judging others who have run afoul of the law.
[Stephen] Carter[, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School] said that more than 70 percent of American adults have committed a crime that could lead to imprisonment. Based on a strictly technical reading of existing laws, the consensus among the legal experts we reached is that the number is reasonable. Way more than a majority of Americans have done something in their lives that runs afoul of some law that includes jail or prison time as a potential punishment.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfac...out-70-us-have-done-something-could-put-us-j/
It's a sobering warning against self-righteousness and judging others who have run afoul of the law.
