Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   Admissible Evidence Date:   9/3/2010 12:44:24 PM

“A 12-person government evidence team is waiting to take possession of the blowout preventer when it reaches the surface.”

Article the seventh [Amendment V]

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Therefore, in accordance with the Constitution of the United States, all evidence obtained by the US Government, being gleaned from the BP blowout preventer demanded to be provided by BP for use by the Government against BP, should be inadmissible in a court of law.

If I was BP, I’d tell the Government to raise the d@mn thing themselves… or hold BP harmless (which is the correct course of action).