Timothy C. May wrote:
At 8:20 AM -0500 11/8/96, Jim Ray wrote:
been decided and appealed, because of this very possibility. I am already concerned that an ambitious U.S. Attorney, using Alta Vista, could attempt to argue that "cypherpunk terrorists have been secretly trying to subtly influence Kozinski's thinking, and that therefore he should be removed from the case in favor of some judge who has no clue whatsoever about the 'Net, encryption, anonymous remailers, etc." [I am sure the argument wouldn't be put quite that way <g> but that's what the U.S. Attorney would mean.] There is now a judge with some idea of these issues who will IMNSHO probably be fair to "our" side. It is a rare opportunity, and I don't want to "blow it."
If jurors can be dismissed for knowing "too much" about the O,J. case--knowing how to _read_ ensures this--then we are probably fast-approaching the point where judges are recused (or whatever the word is) from hearing cases where they've had any education whatsover on.
Maybe people should worry about how judges are *not* excused in certain cases. The early word on the street was that the Japanese mob did Ron & Nicole, and *both* judges look suspiciously like people who might want to *contain* certain information.