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To: Ben Mugged

At common law, a man's servant could not testify against him since the servant was considered to be an "extension" of the man. (Part of this survives in the prohibition against spouses testifying against each other.) An argument against this will begin from Fifth Amendment grounds. Who knows where it will end....


3 posted on 10/09/2005 5:11:39 PM PDT by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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To: Snickersnee

Machinery (and drug-sniffing dogs) do not "testify," they merely provide data to be interpreted.


6 posted on 10/09/2005 5:18:45 PM PDT by Appalled but Not Surprised
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To: Snickersnee
An argument against this will begin from Fifth Amendment grounds. Who knows where it will end....

Might hinge on what Meiers thinks.

111 posted on 10/09/2005 7:30:32 PM PDT by Lester Moore (islam's allah is Satan and is NOT the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.)
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