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by mcphage 2926 days ago
> Someone in the US has to actively decide not to prosecute.

There’s no autonomous machinery that will prosecute someone unless it’s turned off. If nobody in the US did anything, then she would have jogged back into Canada and never have been aware that she stepped outside of its boundaries in the first place.

So, no. Action would have been required to prosecute. No action would have meant no prosecution.