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From: dogar@motcid.UUCP (Haroon H. Dogar)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: CNN
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Date: 19 Nov 90 16:34:10 GMT
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jgd@rsiatl.UUCP (John G. DeArmond) writes:

>Defend themselves?  Considering that according to the papers, CNN 
>originally stole these tapes from the government, 

Uh... I'm no legal eagle, but it seems to me that for "the government"
to have tapes of conversations between a defendant and his/her lawyer
has got to be against some law.


>Maybe since the tapes are back
>under control of the court, Noriega can stand trial and have some chance
>of it being fair.

Not if the other side knows what he and his lawyer have been talking about.
(I think its equally wrong for CNN to have or broadcast these conversations.)

-hd