Re: "Contempt" charges likely to increase

[frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)]

At  1:19 PM 4/6/96 -0500, Black Unicorn wrote:
>I might add that the Cayman Islands are full of trust companies with 
>provisions which forbid the disclosure of data to a client who is 
>coerced.  A law on the books refuses to recognize "consent" orders made 
>under judicial compulsion.  This would give the appearance of total 
>unavailability of evidence and suggest the futility of contempt 
>charges.  Yet courts have still, and with no small measure of success, 
>imposed sanctions on witnesses so protected.

It is one thing to believe that you might be able to change a human's mind
by threatening another human via jail.  (It reminds me of many bad movies.)
 It is quite a different level of hubris to think that a similar action
could overcome mathematical probability.  However, I am unable to predict
the actions of anyone who believes that the Supreme Court is the top
law-giver of the Universe.


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