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Article #663*Legal* obligation to report a crime (Re: E-mail Privacy)
From: Carl M. Kadie
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 18:05
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1991 18:05
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karl.kleinpaste@osc.edu writes: [...] >Anyone who witnesses a crime and does nothing to stop it is a party to >it. In fact, screwed up though the USA legal system surely is, it >makes a lot of sense that certain crimes are defined in terms of the >failure _of_the_citizenry_ to report other crimes. [...] I won't address the original question or the moral quesiton, just this legal question. In general, a citzen is under no legal obligation to report a crime. The only exceptions I can think of involve child abuse and doctors. - Carl -- Carl Kadie -- kadie@cs.uiuc.edu -- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!kadie From: kadie@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Carl M. Kadie) Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,misc.legal Subject: *Legal* obligation to report a crime (Re: E-mail Privacy) Message-ID: <1991Jun14.180542.14481@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 18:05:42 GMT References: <2539@maserati.qsp.UUCP> <1991Jun14.130553.28202@oar.net> Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Lines: 17