[opendtv] Re: The "Mice" Roared
- From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:53:05 -0500
John Willkie wrote:
>(I must remind that Florida, California and New York forbid a criminal from
>profiting directly or indirectly from his or her crime through the publication
>of a book, screenplay or story.) Under the legal standard that prevails in
>civil trials, Simpson killed Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman.
The civil trial established Simpson as a tortfeasor and not a criminal. So
long as the book is hypothetical rather than a confession, pretty clearly it
probably does not fall within the proscriptions of those statutes.
Furthermore, Simpson has never been legally deprived of ordinary civil rights,
which deprivation might be a necessary condition precedent for the statutes to
be constitutional.
Al Limberg
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