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I don't buy that they couldn't do anything sooner. C'mon: they're lawyers. They find loopholess faster than a fly finds poop.
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Well,they said that even if they had talked, it would have been in-admissible in court, and thus wouldn't have helped the poor guy at all. In fact, it might have screwed him more, because they couldn't do what they are doing now, as the evidence would have already been refused by the court.
I guarrantee this will be on an episode of Law&Order next season.
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Saltah'na
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I think they already did that, but with a twist.
In that episode, Jaimie Ross (former ADA) represented a client who confessed to her that he commited some crime that some poor schmoe was going to death row for. Jaimie of course couldn't divulge that source without "compromising" her client. So she somehow "leaked" this information, hoping it gets somewhere. This of course was secondary to the main plot in which McCoy tries a former prosecutor who deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence which would have proved the poor schmoe's innocence and securing a death penalty conviction.
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I'd shoot all involved, then tell a priest in the confessional- just for some ironic, non-admissible payback.
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I wonder... Is a priest allowed to divulge your confessions if you were never baptized? That is, do you have to be an official Catholic to get the secret confession privilege?
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In confession, many times you & the priest aren't acquainted, or can even see each other. There's not exactly a secret Catholic handshake to give either, so there's no way for the priest to know if you're a Catholic or not, but I don't think he would care about that anyway. So even if you did divulge something big, it's doubtful the priest could follow up on it even if he wanted to.
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I could so see the FBI setting up a extended-record reel-to-reel in the confessional behind a cardboard silouette of a priest.
Or HBO for that matter: "Next on HBO- New York Confessional"
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Anyway, the priest *could* divulge secrets; I mean, it's discouraged, but he wouldn't exactly get excommunicated for it...would he? (I'm aware that secular law says he can't be subpoenaed for it.)
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I believe so. A priest is one of those public notary type peoples or whatever.
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I don't know what the law is here, but in the states, priest-penitent rights are protected. There have been some cases regarding that fact.
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Hearsay anyway- anything said through that screen would get kicked out.
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