and he cut three copies into small pieces with a scissors,
That, by the way, might have been an additional crime: improper disposal.
Even if otherwise permitted to destroy a document, that is not an acceptable way to do so.
30 posted on 03/31/2005 4:44:46 PM PST by lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)