I don’t approve of illegal activity to convict someone.
That being said, our system is as decent to suspects as any other system in the world.
The NYT is great about criticizing, but it sure is short on respect for our system overall.
There are prosecutors that have withheld evidence in murder cases, sent innocent people to prison and by not pursuing the real killer, let that killer murder other people.
They do that largely with no consequence to themselves, but only consequence to the wrongly convicted and the tax payers who end up writing the wrongly convicted a very big check.
That being said, our system is as decent to suspects as any other system in the world.
Between those two sentences lies the "dichotomy rub" - the "system" is designed to presume that it is better to let a hundred guilty folks go free than to convict even one innocent. It is the corrupt within said system that have twisted it beyond recognition to many. Venal Men are the weak link in the system and the durability of the Constitution upon which the system relies.