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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.161638.692@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 16:16:38 EST
- References: <1992Dec18.132520.549@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <92363.133501IO10928@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- In article <92363.133501IO10928@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, IO10928@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (ABHAY) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec28.052513.14461@midway.uchicago.edu>, hau4@ellis.uchicago.edu
- > (sven hauptfeld) says:
- >
- >>This is really idiotic. Do you think that government having jurisdiction over
- >>its people mean that those people are its property? And do you think that a US
- >>citizen who kills somebody in another country would be immune of a trial by a
- >>US court?
- >
- > YES! If the person killed is not an american, then he can't be tried in
- > U.S. He can be tried in that foreign country, if he is caught there or if
- > he is convicted and that country has extradiction treaty with U.S.!!!
- > ( U.S. doesn't have Extradiction treaty with Yugo.)
-
- Abhay! Who are you? Another person who talks about the law and appears to have
- some understanding of it!
-
- God be praised.
-
- And, quick Q. Abhay, does it matter if the victim is an American or not? My
- undestading is that they could be an American as well, else it would set up a
- nasty precedent whereby our courts have crimminal jurisdiction over foreign
- nationals who kill Americans.
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- >
- >>You must be either kidding or totally ignorant.
- > I don't think so Sven!
- >> Sven
- > Abhay
-
- Kick in more. It is good to hear from someone who actually has knowledge of the
- subject they are speaking on.
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