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- From: uctlxpd@ucl.ac.uk (Peter Bartlett)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Diplomatic Immunity
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.001519.6036@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 00:15:19 GMT
- References: <c8Aj02yw2fss01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1h5nc2INN6bc@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium
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- roder@cco.caltech.edu (Brenda J. Roder) writes:
-
- >Recently, I saw one show (Law & Order, set in New York City) which had
- >someone with diplomatic immunity accused of murder. They said that it
- >(immunity) didn't apply for crimes of a (greivous? serious? major? darn,
- >I can't remember the exact word they used) nature, so they were able to
- >bring him to trial. About a week later, I saw a different show (less
- >serious The Commish) where they had a rapist ith diplomatic immunity. They
- >had to convince the Ambassador to waive this person's immunity before they
- >could arrest him. So the question is, which one was correct (more correct?)
- >or is rape not sufficiently grave to warrant automatic waiver of immunity.
-
- It may depend on the country where the alleged criminal act was invoked.
- I remember a case from (I think) the UK where a body was discovered,
- presumably having been pushed from a window (either dead or dying in the
- drop) from the embassy. Diplomatic immunity applied. Presumably alleged
- murder would count as a "greivous" or "serious" crime?
-
- peter
-