"Colin Campbell" (remove underscore) wrote in
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On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:27:21 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:


Military police are not trained to collect evidence for a civilian
prosecution and therefore they wait for help in these matters. The
person
is already arrested when the military seizes them, but the military
police
are not trained for an investigation leading to a conviction, in civilian
courts.

'Arrest' is a specific legal status. A person detained by military
authorities is _not_ under arrest.

Tell that to the boys at gitmo.

And even in detaining somebody
there are specific legal rules that must be followed - or else the
detention turns into the felony of 'false arrest.'

That is because it is an arrest.