{"id":312,"date":"2009-12-17T15:28:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/?p=312"},"modified":"2009-12-17T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:28:44","slug":"pedro-nava-seeks-to-punish-witnesses-of-violent-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/17\/pedro-nava-seeks-to-punish-witnesses-of-violent-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Nava Seeks to Punish Witnesses of Violent Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/dailyreview\/localnews\/ci_14011486\">Inside Bay Area<\/a> reports that Assemblymember Pedro Nava will be introducing new legislation to <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.assembly.ca.gov\/members\/a35\/Pressroom\/Press\/20091216AD35PR01.aspx\">punish witnesses<\/a> of violent crimes.  Do legislators have to approach every single problem with a hammer?<\/p>\n<p>Someone needs to think this through very carefully.  Right now, there is no upside to being a witness.  If you report the crime, you face real problems with <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2009\/12\/14\/on-snitches-and-stitches-in-philly\/\">witness intimidation<\/a>.  And, from the Broadcom saga, witness intimidation isn&#8217;t the sole province of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2009\/12\/16\/judge-cormac-carney-the-left-coasts-jed-rakoff\/\">mob<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will be a great day in America when the police starts Mirandizing witnesses before interviewing them.  I think that will really encourage them to open up.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Bay Area reports that Assemblymember Pedro Nava will be introducing new legislation to punish witnesses of violent crimes. Do legislators have to approach every single problem with a hammer? Someone needs to think this through very carefully. Right now, there is no upside to being a witness. If you report the crime, you face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/law.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}