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- From: dcrosgr@uoft02.utoledo.edu
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- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.132144.715@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:21:44 EST
- References: <92363.133501IO10928@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <1992Dec29.055724.23632@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec29.102231.711@uoft02.utoledo.edu> <1992Dec29.160749.14336@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec29.160749.14336@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, ed@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (edward.m.hummel) writes:
- > 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.)
-
- Bingo--within the US. Planning to smuggle something into the US is a crime that
- is within the US. (At least, as soon as it is committed.) Same thing with the
- drug lords.
-
- >
- > 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.
-