14 Jun
1993
14 Jun
'93
6:22 p.m.
peb@PROCASE.COM writes:
Case 4: "I forgot."
This one seems to work for U.S. presidents.
My suspicion is (gee Mike, you're right! I *am* a lawyer!) that in such cases the court makes a judgement as to whether a particular claim of forgetfulness is credible. If the information in question is clearly critical to the life or livelihood of the person being subpoenaed (is there a legal term for "person being subpoenaed"?), the claim that the key has been forgotten is likely to be disbelieved. Of course, the court might say "Ok, gee, that's too bad. I guess it's OK then if we just hold these floppies under this head demagnetizer." -- Mike McNally