Seems to me she only "illegally"deleted emails IF the emails were official State Dept business. If she only deleted personal emails then that wasn’t breaking any laws. [edit: Of course, we don’t really know what she deleted.]
Now, if the issue is that she used a personal email address for official business, then things are more complicated, perhaps sinister looking, but not necessarily illegal either. It certainly leaves her room to hide incriminating evidence, but that alone is not proof she did delete incriminating emails (of course, the way the GOP operates now, “absence of evidence is automatically evidence of absence”-- they can insinuate all kinds of crimes here, and if we never find proof that only means she was perfect in her cover-up.)
A bigger issue is whether her personal server was secure. I’m not sure anyone can answer that.
So, is this crime comparable to murder, or a parking ticket? I guess it depends whether you like Hillary or not. I personally think it should not be allowed, and note some prominent GOP presidential hopefuls committed the same “crime” while Governor (Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Sarah Palin)-- except like Clinton it may not have been expressly forbidden by any laws at the time they did it.
