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Comment: Re:Youngest 1st world country? (Score 1) 60

by gmhowell (#40152299) Attached to: EU Commissioner: I Will End Net Neutrality Waiting Game

You are mistaken - the Statute of Westminster 1931 and the ratification of said statute in Australia and New Zealand established the independence of several British dominions, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Each country is independent, and each is a country.

And since the US was around before 1931, it backs up the person who said we were oldfags.

Comment: Re:No expectation of privacy (Score 1) 184

>>> the police have no responsibility to give the recording in full to the defense

Yes they do. If it's later discovered they were withholding evidence, the defendent is automatically freed because he didn't get a fair trial. So the police have a responsibility to turn over everything (else they'd just be stupid).

It depends on whether or not there is exculpatory evidence on the tape and/or on the quality of the discovery motion. In many states, the police and prosecutors can tap dance around this with little or no concern for appellate reversal or civil suits.

Comment: Re:No expectation of privacy (Score 2) 184

I believe OP was using the car vs. house thing to illustrate income disparity within the US. The further implication is that those who are wealthier (the person with the pricey car in his example) are those who the police do not bother. This happens not as a result of differences in crime rates, but because of differences in power within society.

Either that or he was talking about Chaucer's Endless Summer.

If you push the "extra ice" button on the soft drink vending machine, you won't get any ice. If you push the "no ice" button, you'll get ice, but no cup.

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