From: Keith Henson <hkhenson@netcom3.netcom.com>
Subject: I need a word
Date: 22 Sep 2000 19:32:25 GMT
Message-ID: <8qgc49$ju5$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net>
*If* a goverment official were to withhold (or attempt to withhold)
notifying a person and thereby set the person up for criminal prosecution
for (just for argument) "failure to appear," what would this act be
called? Terms such as entrapment or framing don't seem to be an exact
fit, especially when it fails.
If you have the federal statue number that would be great.
Email to hkhenson@netcom.com works if you don't want to post here.
Keith Henson
From: FRice@SkepticNOSPAMTank.ORG (Reverend Fredric L. Rice)
Subject: Re: I need a word
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:44:24 GMT
Organization: The Skeptic Tank
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Keith Henson <hkhenson@netcom3.netcom.com> wrote:
>*If* a goverment official were to withhold (or attempt to withhold)
>notifying a person and thereby set the person up for criminal prosecution
>for (just for argument) "failure to appear," what would this act be
>called?
I believe that that would constitute obstruction.
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From: "Shukaido" <MilwaukeeSP@spam-me-not.hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: I need a word
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:58:07 -0500
Message-ID: <#WUXccNJAHA.307@cpmsnbbsa07>
"Malfeasance" springs to mind.
From http://www.dictionary.com :
mal·fea·sance (ml-fzns)
n. Law
Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official.
[Anglo-Norman malfaisance, from Old French malfaisant, malfeasant, present
participle of malfaire, to do evil from Latin malefacere; see malefactor.]
"Keith Henson" <hkhenson@netcom3.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:8qgc49$ju5$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net...
> *If* a goverment official were to withhold (or attempt to withhold)
> notifying a person and thereby set the person up for criminal prosecution
> for (just for argument) "failure to appear," what would this act be
> called? Terms such as entrapment or framing don't seem to be an exact
> fit, especially when it fails.
>
> If you have the federal statue number that would be great.
>
> Email to hkhenson@netcom.com works if you don't want to post here.
>
>
> Keith Henson
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From: Raptavio <lordmagnusrexmundi@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: I need a word
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:59:33 GMT
Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy.
Message-ID: <8qgknq$vdp$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
In article <8qgc49$ju5$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net>,
Keith Henson <hkhenson@netcom3.netcom.com> wrote:
> *If* a goverment official were to withhold (or attempt to withhold)
> notifying a person and thereby set the person up for criminal prosecution
> for (just for argument) "failure to appear," what would this act be
> called? Terms such as entrapment or framing don't seem to be an exact
> fit, especially when it fails.
>
> If you have the federal statue number that would be great.
Called my wife. She emphasizes that proper notice of a formal hearing
or other court appearance is often inadvertently not mailed, and if you
don't appear having not been given proper notice, charges cannot be
filed upon you for it.
That said, she says such oversights happen often enough that if this
were a specific situation, suspecting foul play would be premature.
That also said, she knows of no crime for such an act, though the clerk
who did such a thing would likely find himself fired by a superior, and
if the clerk was a member of the bar could likely be disbarred.
--
"It must be exciting to think that way, but a drag to have to deal with
the clinical diagnosis."
