Comments don't nullify the force and effect of Apology Bill


The Maui News published my letter today regarding the significance of the apology.

The Maui News
Letters to the Editor
Thursday, February 19, 2004

Sen. Daniel Inouye was quoted as saying the Apology Bill was "a simple resolution of apology" (Letters, Feb. 13).

However, in that same debate, Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., in arguing against the bill, stated that, regardless of whether the senators from Hawaii agreed, "the logical consequences of this resolution would be independence."

The apology is in legal terms an "admission against interest, " a confession if you will. If a person signed a statement confessing to having committed a crime, but said it was meant as "simply an apology," do you think that would stop a court from allowing it as evidence in a criminal prosecution? Not likely.

The findings of fact and law that were included in the bill are not limited in application by what the senators say their intention was.

Scott Crawford
Hana

Posted: Thu - February 19, 2004 at 11:47 AM    
   
 
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