ew Hampshire let him go.COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINSTHIMSELF: Oliver North was forced to testify againsthimself. Congress granted him immunity from having anythinghe said to them being used as evidence against him, and thenthey required him to talk. After he did so, what he said wasused to find other evidence which was used against him. Thecourts also play games where you can be required to testifyagainst yourself if you testify at all. COMPELLED TO BE AWITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: In the New YorkCentral Park assault case, three people were found guilty ofassault. But there was no physical evidence linking them tothe crime; semen did not match any of the defendants. Theonly evidence the state had was confessions. To obtain theseconfessions, the police questioned a 15-year old without aparent present -- which is illegal under New York state law.Police also refused to let the subject's Big Brother, anattorney for the Federal government, see him duringquestioning. Police screamed "You better tell us what wewant to hear and cooperate or you are going to jail," at14-year-old Antron McCray, according to Bobby McCray,his father. Antron McCray "confessed" after his father toldhim to, so that police would release him. These people werecoerced into bearing witness against themselves, and thoseconfessions were used to convict them. COMPELLED TOBE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: Your answers toCensus questions are required by law, with a $100 penaltyfor each question not answered. But people have beenevicted for giving honest Census answers. According to theGeneral Accounting Office, one of the most frequent wayscity governments use census information is to detect illegaltwo-family dwellings. This has happened in MontgomeryCounty, Maryland; Pullman, Washington; and Long Island,New York. The August 8, 1989, Wall Street Journal reportsthis and other ways Census answers have been used againstthe answerers. COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESSAGAINST HIMSELF: Drug tes...
