| From: | gurth@******.nl (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | Legal Magic |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:01:35 +0200 |
> The only way to tell if the magician *knows* a given spell would be to
> use Mind Probe or some other interrogation spell, and that ought to be
> inadmissible in court. (In the UCAS, if they still have any shreds
> left of the US Constitution, it would violate the defendant's Fifth
> Amendment rights.)
Something to that effect is stated in one or two books, but I don't
remember right away which ones.
> So come to think of it, yes, in a country where Mind Probes were
> acceptable for prosecutors (Aztlan, perhaps)
This is normal procedure in many NAN countries -- their courts are (in
theory) about finding out what really happened, not about finding out
who has the best lawyer :)
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