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From: frissell@panix.com Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 07:45:35 -0400

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If they had reasonable cause to believe you had knowledge of the key and were refusing to divulge it under direct order of the court you would be held in contempt until you were very old and gray.

Two years max. A lot less time if you followed my strategy of spamming the court with daily (hourly?) screeds in which you assert in your finest Usenet flame language the fact that you will never follow the judge's order.

Your contention is that the longest a judge can hold you on contempt charges is two years? I would love to see a reference on this one. Jim Choate CyberTects ravage@ssz.com