Do you think it would be appropriate to have Federal legislation which would make it a Federal crime to intimidate a State court witness?
Well, you have identified a problem of sufficient intensity that it requires a response, in my opinion.
Or suffering. To be burned to death is a pretty horrible fate.
They could use the testimony at the preliminary hearing.
When some prospective witness comes to complain to the police department about intimidation or threats, do you have the manpower to begin to...
How many in this room think that cooperating with police is a bad thing to do and you'd be classified as a snitch?
To what extent does the District Attorney's Office have resources to provide protection?
There is a legitimate intimidation factor that's out there, there's no question about that.
Do you think there's any inherent superiority in the appointing process with judicial commissions and appointments as opposed to the elector...
I have been pressing for mandatory sentences on Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
When you call for a national commission, Senator Webb and I have introduced the Webb-Specter bill calling for such a commission.
This hearing has been recognized following an extensive series of articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer, maintaining major problems in the c...
Is he a snitch?
But doesn't the judge give limiting instruction?
So you would concede that, as in your own words, the Inquirer did do some real public service in some lines?
When you said his picture was posted, amplify what you meant by that.
And was that the reason he tried to burn down the house?
There have to be consequences and the consequences have to be significant in order for people to get the message.
