Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond From: ndiamond@watdaisy.UUCP (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: net.legal,net.politics Subject: Re: NYC subway hero Message-ID: <6846@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 12:34:31 EST Article-I.D.: watdaisy.6846 Posted: Mon Jan 7 12:34:31 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 03:08:52 EST References: <241@harvard.ARPA> <6843@watdaisy.UUCP> <600@aluxe.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.legal:1221 net.politics:6638 > > Last I heard, there were no U.S. federal statutes against murder and such > > other crimes. > > The last I heard, life was a civil right and denying a civil right was a > federal offense. In other words, life in D.C. is only protected by civil rights legislation. Therefore murder was legal in D.C. prior to around 1965? Or, only prior to around 1865? Civil rights were not always a big issue. (Economic rights used to be the big issue, but they have been forgotten and surrendered during the last few decades.) Maybe D.C. really has, or used to have, its own criminal code. ... why doesn't anyone in D.C. answer this? -- Norman Diamond UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!watdaisy!ndiamond CSNET: ndiamond%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet ARPA: ndiamond%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa "Opinions are those of the keyboard, and do not reflect on me or higher-ups."