From: Jim choate <ravage@bga.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 94 09:27:00 PDT
To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Subject: Re: LITTLE BROTHER INSIDE
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> 
> Dr. Elizebeth Morgan, I suspect. 
> (Dual MD couple in DC. She accuses him of child molestation, spirits
> daughter away. Refused to tell Judge where. In lockup for ~1.5 years
> without charge/trial. Congress finally passed a law limiting civil
> contempt to release her. More recently, Supreme Court ruling defining
> limits of civil contempt (UMW vs. JOHN L. BAGWELL) may have an effect on
> this.)
> 
I don't think this will apply since we are talking about a criminal case
not a civil one. Child custody is a civil issue unless the child is being
harmed and then the acts are criminal. I suspect that no judge or other
body will set a limitation in the case of a criminal case unless the
imprisonment extends past the statute of limitations (if there is one).

Side Note:

Perhaps somebody who archives the list should take this and earlier talk
on the topic of self-incrimination and such and submit them to a law 
journal...?