I have long thought that it would be really great if they taught the bare bones element of contract and consumer protection law in HS.
The basic elements of criminal law would be good but it's unlikely that the school board would approach my defense attorney's take on this.
Yesterday I had to explain to a friend who needed minor legal advice that you do not have to talk to the cops except to give your name (unless that would be incriminatory), and if involved in a situation where you might be held liable even in (say) a traffic accident you should not do so, you should say, I want to talk to my lawyer first. If you say that they cannot ask any more questions until your lawyer is present, and if they do, the answers are probably not admissible.
But you'd think after decades of cop TV shows and the Miranda warnings that everyone knows you'd think everyone would know you have a right to remain silent, that anything you say can and will be be used against you ina court of law, that you have a right to an attorney, and if cannot afford an attorney one will be provided for you. And you don't have to be under arrest for all this to apply. Especially the right to remain silent. Even professional crooks regularly blow this by trying to talk their way out of situations, thus producing contradictions leading to confessions. The real pros, the Outfit boys, just clam up.
The school board might approve teaching about conspiracy and accomplice liability and felony murder and the no-gun laws for felons the abolition of parole, however.
--- c p <cpthron at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> >From: andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> >Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] myspace
> >To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
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> >Probably it's good not to
> > > work in groups if you're
> > > going to take part in a felony,
> >
> >Technically this is called "conspiracy," and it is
> not
> >only a form of accomplice liability that makes you
> as
> >guilty of the predicate offense as everyone
> involved
> >in the conspiracy, it is a seperate crime all by
> >itself. I don't recommend it. Or committing solo
> >felonies either.
> >
>
> yep - they should probably teach some legal
> principles in high school
> government classes - unless that would constitute
> giving legal advice
> without a license.
>
> Look at their accused targets. I don't like these
> guys. The Forest service
> genetics lab... unless I'm grossly mistaken, would
> purely be doing applied
> conservation genetics i.e. seeing how inbred a
> threatened bird has become,
> identifying different genetic stocks of fish or
> trees. It's highly unlikely
> they develop new agricultural strains of pine or
> whatever controversial
> activity they are imagining (that would be so
> expensive, that the USFS would
> not have that money, plus as Ignacio Chapela
> accurately points out, that
> stuff hasn't proven profitable at all). They're such
> luddites they couldn't
> bother to look this up.
> Also, it took one try with google search terms to
> discover the May 20th
> activity he referred to but said he couldn't talk
> about - it was the Palo
> Alto anarchist action 'reclaim the streets' which
> was far more vandalism
> oriented than other reclaim the streets parties.
>
>
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/256173_monroe19.html
> "They were arrested Friday after leaving a Kmart
> store in Auburn, Calif., a
> Sierra foothill community east of Sacramento.
> Authorities said they were
> buying ingredients and equipment to make a bomb and
> had discussed detonating
> it at the Forest Service's Institute of Forest
> Genetics in Placerville.
>
> Other potential targets included the Nimbus Dam on
> the American River near
> Sacramento, a cell-phone tower, a power station,
> banks, trucks,
> mountaintop-removal projects in West Virginia and
> Communist Party offices,
> according to an affidavit filed by the FBI."
>
>
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