Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:12 PM 9/6/1999 -0700, Bryan Caldwell wrote: >At the CNN website you can read excerpts from the French Magistrate's >report. I won't re-copy them here because they are copywritten. However, he >expressly found that the photographers did not resort to "ruse or violence" >nor was there any failure to render assistance on the part of the >photographers. Bryan You are misreading the Decision, as did the American press. The reason for these conclusions was a certitude that the government would be unable to prove these things. It is different than in a Common Law system such as yours and mine. This is sort of like a default judgement. Civil Law is quite a bit different from the Common Law. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!