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Couldn't the government just say whatever documents presented were obtained illegally or are 'state secrets'?
by disposition2 11y ago
Couldn't the government just say whatever documents presented were obtained illegally or are 'state secrets'?
- pdabbadabba 11y agoI'd appreciate for someone else to weigh in here, since this is well outside my area of expertise. But my somewhat informed legal instinct is that the government can invoke certain privileges to protect it from having to disclose certain information, but these privileges would allow it bar information that is already public from use in court.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Couldn't the government just say whatever documents presented were obtained illegally or are 'state secrets'? State secrets probably -- that privilege is extremely easily abused. Obtained illegally, less so, since illegally obtained evidence isn't generally excluded except when offered by the government in a criminal case; in other cases, the remedy for illegally obtained evidence is just to prosecute for the act of illegally obtaining it.