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57 Stan. L. Rev. 209 (2004-2005)
Truth or Dare: Terrorism and Truth Serum in the Post-9/11 World

handle is hein.journals/stflr57 and id is 223 raw text is: NOTE TRUTH OR DARE?: TERRORISM AND TRUTH SERUM IN THE POST-9/11 WORLD Jason R. Odeshoo* INTRODUCTION...................................................................................................... 210 I. A BRIEF BACKGROUND AND HISTORY: UNCOVERING THE TRUTH ABOUT TRUTH SERUM....................................................................................................... 214 A. Truth Serum: Fact and Fiction .................................................................... 214 B. A Brief History of Truth Serum: Truth Stranger than Fiction? ................... 216 I. THE G ENEVA CONVENTIONS ............................................................................ 221 III. THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY UNDER THE ICCPR................................................... 223 A . U nlawfulness ............................................................................................... 225 1. The Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination ...................... 226 2. Due process .............................................................................................. 227 B . A rbitrariness ................................................................................................ 23 1 C. Conclusion ................................................................................................... 237 IV. TORTURE UNDER THE ICCPR AND THE CAT .................................................. 238 A. Torture Under the ICCPR ........................................................................... 239 B. The U.N. Convention Against Torture ......................................................... 245 1. Article 1: Torture...................................................................................... 247 2. Article 16: Cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment........ 250 3. The United States legislation implementing the CA T: 18 U.S.C. § 2340.. 252 C ON CLU SION ........................................................................................................ 253 J.D., with distinction, Stanford Law School, 2004; M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; A.B., summa cum laude, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Senior Note Editor, Stanford Law Review, Volume 56. I would like to thank Mariano- Florentino Cu6llar, Rebecca Moore-Reierson, and Greg Duff for their very helpful comments. Thanks also to Sarah Givan, Cynthia Inda, and all of the other editors of this Note for their excellent assistance. 209

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