Charles Petit, who is known to many of us as John Savage, has a journal in the same Journal Writing Group to which I belong.
He has put up the first part of his con report, which includes a scathing set of remarks about this particular panel. He was not at all happy with Mel White (whom I see is not quoted here), who plainly did not know anything about the topic, and he has corrected several of her mis-statements in the journal entry.
http://www.crosswinds.net/~jsavage/journals/j0009.html#00Sep05
Look for Part III -- Escape of the Human Sacrifice. It clarifies many questions I've seen asked on this subject. And Petit is a lawyer who practices in this field, so he knows what he's talking about.
Lazette Gifford (zette) -- Community Fantasy/SF, Young Adult Fiction, and E-Publishing Moderator
http://www.lazette.net
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Another damned thick, square book! Always scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon? -- William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, upon receiving volume II of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1781)