asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) (11/23/90)
Now look. Not everyone that haunts the net is an American or completely familiar with American law and "due process", as I believe you refer to it. I have asked a number of people/groups a simple question and as of yet have not heard so much as a mumble. The question is... Seeing as how Rose/SJG/etc have had their constitutional rights stomped all over in one form or another, is there any form of retribution that they can get. In some of these cases, the "law enforcement" agencies would appear to have been blatantly overzealous. In the case of SJG, it has been alleged that the search warrant was not even signed. Neidhorf has had his life screwed around something fierce and Len Rose seems to be getting raked over the coals yet again. Do these people, and therefore all of the rest of you, have to take this without any opportunity for recourse? Does American law not have provisions to protect against this sort of thing? Or at least make some kind of amends after the fact? ======================================================================== Adam Smith Genius - Graphic Artist - Bad Mood Guy The Chameleon Papers Vancouver, BC CANADA "I'd give my eyeteeth to have a Macintosh--unfortunately, due to Apple's pricing policies, that's not enough" ========================================================================
new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) (11/29/90)
In article <eTZ3s2w163w@questor.wimsey.bc.ca> asmith@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Adam Smith) writes: >In the case of SJG, it has been alleged >that the search warrant was not even signed. I'm not sure of exactly what was alledged, but I asked my brother (a state trooper) about this. Evidently, it's not uncommon to make up a warrant, photocopy it, give the original to the judge, take the copy to (say) SJG, ask the judge to sign it, have the judge call the officer at SJG and say "I signed it" and then break down the door. Just because SJG didn't see the copy that was signed does not mean the warrant wasn't signed before being executed. -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, Formal Description Techniques (esp. Estelle), Coffee, Amigas ----- =+=+=+ Let GROPE be an N-tuple where ... +=+=+=
mkapor@eff.org (Mitch Kapor) (12/03/90)
Yes, there are things which can be done, including, in some cases the recovery of damages. The Electronic Frontier Foundation represents Steve Jackson Games and is examining specific actions which can be undertaken now that the search warrant affadavit has been disclosed. For more information, contact Mike Godwin, staff counsel at the EFF mnemonic@eff.org