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Re: "Confessing to a felony"

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Thu Sep 26 18:26:18 1996

In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.960926133104.19315B-100000@polaris>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:16:42 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>

At 1:37 PM -0400 9/26/96, Black Unicorn wrote:

>>
>> b. evidence that the "confession" can be backed up by other evidence
>>
>
>In the case of the export at hand, a passport record exists, and surely
>the notebook exists.  Were I a prosecutor with a bug in my rectum, I would
>think I had something of a case.

What evidence of any sort do they have that any particular notebook
computer was involved in the trip offshore? Seems to me this is a rather
major defect in the evidence chain.

--Tim May



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