June 27, 2003
Law Professor Meets Cop in Mexico City
On a recent morning, a law professor from the National Autonomous University of Mexico entertains his class with this tale from the dark side of the Mexican criminal-justice system:
A street vendor is picked up by police on suspicion of robbery. He does not have access to a lawyer. He is not allowed to call his family. Instead, he is taken to a police safe house and strapped to a board rigged to a tank of water. Each time the man denies his guilt, he is submerged head first for
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