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- From: wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher)
- Newsgroups: misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Diplomatic Immunity
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 01:06:17 GMT
- Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews abusers - Beltway Annex
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- References: <1992Dec23.4141.28462@dosgate>
- Reply-To: wb8foz@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (David Lesher)
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-
- Others said:
- #
- # If you are a diplomat
- # posted outside your home country and break a law in another country, you
- # may escape prosecution in the other country, but you may be prosecuted
- # under your home country's laws.
-
- Err, maybe...
- The mission grounds, and interestingly, also residences of those on the
- Dip List, are not part of the host country - rather they are part of
- home country. When you enter an mission, you cross an international
- border.
-
- But, things get a little more complicated. In the case of the United
- States, the first ugly question is: What state are you in? Errr,
- well... Remember, many, many things are NOT violations of federal law,
- but state ones. (Historic example: when JFK was assassinated by
- [Oswald, the Mob, the CIA, Publisher's Clearing House], what federal
- crime was committed?) Another hassle - what state do you vote in?
-
- Then I'm told by informed sources, there is little or no case law about
- crimes committed on such extra-territorial locations. My source told me
- a story of a case he had investigated while in Army CID. A GI had
- married a local woman. He named her on his GI life insurance policy.
-
- The marriage failed when she walloped him on the head with the
- tradition blunt object, while in their USArmy housing. But the Army
- passed prosecutation to the {local} goverment. They declined to pursue
- the case, despite a confession, as I recall. She was free & clear.
-
- The widow, being a citizen by marriage, moved to the US. She then sued
- to collect the life insurance! She won.....
-
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