[53346] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Contempt" charges likely to increase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Sat Apr 6 17:13:25 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 13:53:00 -0800
To: Black Unicorn <unicorn@schloss.li>, "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 1:19 PM 4/6/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
>I might add that the Cayman Islands are full of trust companies with
>provisions which forbid the disclosure of data to a client who is
>coerced. A law on the books refuses to recognize "consent" orders made
>under judicial compulsion. This would give the appearance of total
>unavailability of evidence and suggest the futility of contempt
>charges. Yet courts have still, and with no small measure of success,
>imposed sanctions on witnesses so protected.
It is one thing to believe that you might be able to change a human's mind
by threatening another human via jail. (It reminds me of many bad movies.)
It is quite a different level of hubris to think that a similar action
could overcome mathematical probability. However, I am unable to predict
the actions of anyone who believes that the Supreme Court is the top
law-giver of the Universe.
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