Cosh Gets It (But we knew he would)
“Conspiracy” is the mating call of the out-of-control prosecutor. U.S. drug law has been crafted to lighten evidentiary burdens in conspiracy trials, and hearsay is more broadly admissible in them. Some U.S. jurists would like to see the whole concept thrown out.“Money laundering” is another favourite truncheon of the U.S. police state-within-a-state: The minute a drug dealer does anything with his illicit income, a door opens magically to a cavity search of his financial affairs and, upon conviction, property seizures. We are not obliged to co-operate with the worst excesses of U.S. federal law, and I’m afraid this case will turn out to exemplify them.
national post via simon pole
Dead right. And I suspect Colby did not know when he wrote this that the head of the DEA has now confirmed the political motivation for the charges.
Written by jay on August 7th, 2005 with
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