At 12:39 PM 9/18/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>There is nothing to stop the US from gathering evidence and have a
trial to
>convict the terrorists (in their absence if necessary).
Actually, the US almost never (if ever - I'm certainly not aware of it)
conducts trials in absentia.
We generally don't consider a trial in absentia to be far, as one of our
most cherished Constitutional rights is the right of one to confront his
or
her accusers.
JDG
This is even better, if not on topic:
http://dailynews.philly.com/content/daily_news/2001/08/24/local/TOSS24C.
htm
It describes a protest where the people threw overripe tomatoes at
pictures of Ira Einhorn. He killed his girlfriend a put her body in a
trunk in a closet, where it was found 6 months later. He fled to France
and they wouldn't extradite him for 23 years.
Kevin Tarr
