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1996-09-27 - Re: “Confessing to a felony”

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From: “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-09-27 00:39:05 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:39:05 +0800

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From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:39:05 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "Confessing to a felony"
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At 1:37 PM -0400 9/26/96, Black Unicorn wrote:

>>
>> b. evidence that the "confession" can be backed up by other evidence
>>
>
>In the case of the export at hand, a passport record exists, and surely
>the notebook exists.  Were I a prosecutor with a bug in my rectum, I would
>think I had something of a case.

What evidence of any sort do they have that any particular notebook
computer was involved in the trip offshore? Seems to me this is a rather
major defect in the evidence chain.

--Tim May



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