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- Organization: University of Maine System
- Date: Tuesday, 29 Dec 1992 12:24:35 EST
- From: <RCE365@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Message-ID: <92364.122435RCE365@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
- Newsgroups: rec.games.chess
- Subject: Re: Pardon Fischer?
- References: <1992Dec22.011249.594@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- <1992Dec28.052513.14461@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- <1992Dec29.055724.23632@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.055724.23632@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 S
- >U
- >>>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.)
-
-
- >I would really be surprised if the US works the way you say. I certainly know
- >that a Danish truck driver who causes an accident in which people get killed
- >on
- >a Yugoslav road CAN be tried in Denmark - I know of such a case, where Denmark
- >demanded extradiction but Yugoslavia refused (he would be a lot better off
- >under Danish law - but he would stand trial).
-
- If in U.S. court's eye, the judicial system in the foreign countryis
- competent enough, then the U.S. law will not interfere with the that
- matter. That however doesn'tforbid anybody from filing a case.
-
- At this jucture I would like topoint out Bhopal gas tragedy case. The
- Indian government tried to file the case in US, as it is a known fact
- that the US courts give large comensations ( The figure they were talking
- was over a billion $.) However they presented the case on the ground that
- the indian judicial system hasn't been exposed to such cases. The Union
- carbide wanted the case to be tried in India for the same monetery reason
- The US judge opined that the Indian courts arecompetent enough and so
- the case should be tried in INDIA and not US
-
- (finally the victims got around 500 million $ as a comp.)
-
- Abhay
- > Sven
-
-