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- Subject: Re: Phreaks indicted
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 13:02:00 GMT
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- Mike Godwin,
-
- I apologize for not quoting you directly; I misfiled your message.
-
- I am not a newspaper editor and haven't been in a position to decide
- whether or not to print an address of an individual accussed of a
- crime. I'm sure it can sometimes be a difficult decision.
-
- I'm also sure, as you suggest, that some accused individuals can be
- the targets of revenge or retribution, and publicity may exacerbate
- that. However, I think we have to trust the system to do its job and
- protect these people while preventing overzealous vigilantes from
- running amok. And in reality, the alleged perpetrators of high-profile
- crimes such as child rape are usually already known to the victims and
- those close to them, the people most likely to seek to take matters
- into their own hands. I haven't heard of too many cases in which public
- vigilante squads have targeted people reported in the newspaper as
- having been accused of a crime. Most people, I think, are content to
- let the legal process run its course. The perpetrators of the most
- heinous crimes -- Jeffrey Dahmer, for example -- usually remain in
- custody after their arrests, anyway.
-
- Evan Rudowski
-