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Bounty hunters' privileges are a vestige of British common law . Since the Middle Ages, courts have appointed custodians for defendants awaiting trial.
It was precisely to give witnesses and defendants a way out of the perjury trap that theologians distinguished between a lie and a misleading or equivocal statement.
The fen-phen ruling supports a trend of decisions against product-liability defendants.
The purpose is to guarantee defendants' Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial and to ensure that they will not have to defend themselves against stale evidence.
D. Miller, Jr., of Legal Services of New Jersey; Jonathan Ross ofthe American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants; Faith Rivers of the South Carolina Bar Association; and Jeanne Charn, director of Clinical Legal Education at Harvard Law School.