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Re: "Contempt" charges likely to increase

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Subject: Re: "Contempt" charges likely to increase
From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 19:20 EDT
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From:	IN%"[email protected]"  "Black Unicorn"  6-APR-1996 16:17:13.99

>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.

	What measure of success? Getting the data, or locking up the witness?
	-Allen

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