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Humanity loves a scapegoat, especially one that doesn’t implicate the rest of us.

Adams kept trying to implicate Michael Che even as he declared his innocence and proclaimed his love for the city’s workers: “The dancers, the bottle girls, Fat Joe.”

Smith, however, left behind the knife, a knife sheath and the audio recorder covered in DNA that would implicate him in the murder.

But he held the release of that information for three weeks to give the state time to file for appellate relief — which it did, arguing in a petition that the deputies’ “disciplinary matters here do not implicate any Brady obligations and/or were determined to be unfounded by the superior court in the litigation of those matters.”

A law that regulates generative A.I. capabilities—such as a law that requires audits and certification of tools that can engage in sophisticated persuasion—may also not implicate the First Amendment on its face, depending on how it’s written.