Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea
by cheriot on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:41AM
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Do you have a link? Our Constitution is interpreted by the courts as allowing 72 hours to charge or release.
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Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea
by gst on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:46AM
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspec...
"The suspect, a former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has not been charged with any child porn crimes. Instead, he remains indefinitely imprisoned in Philadelphia's Federal Detention Center for refusing to unlock two drives encrypted with Apple's FileVault software in a case that once again highlights the extent to which the authorities are going to crack encrypted devices. The man is to remain jailed "until such time that he fully complies" with the decryption order."
Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea
by jeffmould on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:01AM
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Not sure on this specific case, and IANAL, but from reading the article it sounds as if he has been found in contempt of court. When a judge rules an individual in contempt they can sentence them to an unspecified amount of time as to make them comply. In this case, although he hasn't been charged with the "headline grabbing" crime, he is charged with contempt which has no minimum/maximum sentence and is completely up to the judge's discretion.
Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea
by throwawayrol on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:01AM
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Believe it or not, people can be sent to jail for crimes other than child porn. For example, contempt of court is a crime punishable by imprisonment...
He's not detained without charge. He's detained on the charge of contempt of court.
Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea
by Spooky23 on Friday May 20, 2016 @01:03PM
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He's choosing to stay in a jail full of transient prisoners to avoid being a former police officer in prison for crimes against children.
Re:Detained and interrogated for 10 hours in North Korea
by april1stislame on Friday May 20, 2016 @09:48AM
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Your constitution went trough the window the moment you started having secret courts. That is stuff from fascists, secret courts.