[Am-info] Re: Add witness tampering to the list

[ethical@1of1.net]

In a message dated 2002 April 18 (Thursday), timestamp 07:07 PM, 
   on the topic Re: [Am-info] Re: Add witness tampering to the list,
   Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:

"| it is alleged Gates said he'd talk to his people about the
"|favor. are  you saying this doesn't ground suspicions?

"|you are in a position to do me a favor in exchange for my doctoring 
"|my testimony to a court; I say to you, "sure I'll testify on your 
"|behalf. oh, by the way, can you do such-and-such for me?" 

"|if you respond as Gates is alleged to have responded, is there odor?

There's the smell of smoke, all right.  There _may_ be fire; but (with
apologies to S. Freud):  "Sometimes the smoke is only a cigar."  I
tend to think that if there was any evidence that Microsoft had
performed the requested favor, the examining lawyer (who got
Microsoft's witness to admit the telephone exchange, and could have
done so only if he knew about it in advance and so knew what questions
to ask) would have been all over the witness like a bad suit. 


-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------
/*\   T. Guilbert
\ /   "Ethical at One of One dot Net"  
 X    Portland, Oregon, United States of America  
/ \     [ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML postings] 
-----------------------------------------------------------