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- From: titmas@chdasic.sps.mot.com (Eric Titmas)
- Subject: Re: George Bush pardons criminals
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.223223.19589@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:32:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.160750.19838@panix.com>, eck@panix.com (Mark Eckenwiler) writes:
- |>
- |> This situation is analogous to a standard 4th amendment violation, the
- |> use of improperly seized evidence at trial. Convictions are on
- |> occasion overturned (properly, in my view) because the
- |> gun/knife/bloody shirt was obtained through an illegal search or
- |> seizure. This legal principle offers no support for the proposition
- |> that the defendant in such a case is not factually guilty; it means
- |> only that the constitution does not permit him to be convicted through
- |> the use of the suppressed evidence, no matter how reliable or
- |> probative it may be.
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- The analogy fails. Physical evidence did not change when North was forced
- to testify to Congress. The appeals court told the trial court that it
- must prove that North's testimony did not affect any of the witnesses
- testimony. Since North's testimony altered the recollection (and
- therefore the testimony) of the witnesses the trial court dismissed the
- charges.
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