home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!udel!intercon!psinntp!panix!lkk
- From: lkk@panix.com (Larry Kolodney)
- Subject: Re: Diplomatic Immunity
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.230640.8355@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:06:40 GMT
- References: <c8Aj02yw2fss01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> <1h5nc2INN6bc@gap.caltech.edu>
- Organization: The Devil's Advocate
- Lines: 23
-
- In <1h5nc2INN6bc@gap.caltech.edu> 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.
-
-
- I recall a true incident a number of years ago. The son of a (North?
- South?) Korean diplomat in NYC was accused of rape. Because of his
- diplomatic immunity, his sole sanction was to be required to leave the
- country and not come back.
-
- --
- larry kolodney:(lkk@panix.com)
- _(*#&)#*&%)@(*^%_!*&%^!)*+!*&$+!?&%+!*&^_)*%)*&^%#+&
- The past is not dead, it's not even past. - Wm. Faulkner
-
-