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- From: ed@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (edward.m.hummel)
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:07:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.160749.14336@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <92363.133501IO10928@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <1992Dec29.055724.23632@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec29.102231.711@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
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- dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu writes:
- >There have been practicing lawyers who have entered this debate,
- >do any of them have exapmles of the US trying people for crimes
- >committed overseas.
-
- Wasn't Noriega tried and convicted of crimes he committed while
- he was overseas? (Some obvious differences are that he wasn't a US
- citizen and that the crimes were within the US.)
-
- My worthless opinion is that the US claim to jurisdiction in the
- Fischer case is not a clear cut black and white argument. I expect
- that Fischer received legal advice that the US claim could be
- challenged (probably on grounds similar to those being raised
- here.) The indictment and the issuance of a warrant does indicate
- that there are people (including lawyers) who believe a crime may
- have been committed.
-
- Maybe the courts will get an opportunity to decide.
-