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  1. Newsgroups: misc.legal
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!uchinews!ellis!thf2
  3. From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
  4. Subject: Re: Diplomatic Immunity
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.090803.1367@midway.uchicago.edu>
  6. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  7. Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
  8. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  9. References: <c8Aj02yw2fss01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1h5nc2INN6bc@gap.caltech.edu>
  10. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:08:03 GMT
  11. Lines: 18
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  13. In article <1h5nc2INN6bc@gap.caltech.edu> roder@cco.caltech.edu (Brenda J. Roder) writes:
  14. >Recently, I saw one show (Law & Order, set in New York City) which had
  15. >someone with diplomatic immunity accused of murder.  They said that it 
  16. >(immunity) didn't apply for crimes of a (greivous? serious? major? darn,
  17. >I can't remember the exact word they used) nature, so they were able to 
  18. >bring him to trial.  About a week later, I saw a different show (less
  19. >serious The Commish) where they had a rapist ith diplomatic immunity.  They
  20. >had to convince the Ambassador to waive this person's immunity before they
  21. >could arrest him.  So the question is, which one was correct (more correct?)
  22. >or is rape not sufficiently grave to warrant automatic waiver of immunity.
  23.  
  24. There's always the Danny Glover method of revoking diplomatic immunity...
  25.  
  26. Ted "I'm on vacation, it's 3 am, so this is hardly an accurate answer" Frank
  27. -- 
  28. ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
  29. standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
  30. the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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