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Originally Posted by JustRalph
nope. come to Texas and get caught.......Misdemeanor the 1st time
But I have never heard of anybody getting burned........
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We had a Texas lawyer as a client for over a decade. He actually represented a guy who was charged with a full-bore felony for going to LAD after asking some folks he worked with if they wanted to make any bets.
This man was a professional of some kind - clearly not a bookie or low-life, etc. Just a guy who went to the track every weekend.
On his way to the border, he stopped for a Racing Form and was suddenly surrounded by cops. They treated him like a RICO suspect!
He had (as I recall) $80 worth of "betting slips."
Also, as I recall, the best the lawyer could do was plead him down to a suspended sentence, with a substantial fine. The bad news was that he was barred from all Texas tracks for life.
Don't mess with Texas.
(Or in Texas.)
