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To: FredZarguna

“No, DA’s are even worse. They’re political Law Enforcement.”
On THAT basis, all laws are political; so what then, no laws??


150 posted on 03/16/2014 2:42:09 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli
That's right. The best solution is the fewest possible laws. And that is why the Exclusionary Rule is superior to another mare's nest of regulations, guidelines, laws, internal investigators and investigators investigating the investigators.

The Exclusionary Rule has clear deterrent effects or LEO's would not have been whining about it in various jurisdictions for various kinds of evidence for several centuries, and when it breaks down it is self-policing at the point of application by the trial judge or through corrective appeals.

You do realize that the 5th Amendment is essentially nothing more or less than an Exclusionary Rule for a very specific kind of evidence, don't you? You do realize that the 5th Amendment is why we do not rack US persons in criminal trials, don't you?

Or are you in favor of repealing the Exclusionary Rule against compulsion of self-incriminating testimony as well? That worked so well in English jurisprudence...

151 posted on 03/16/2014 5:50:35 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig, es ist nicht einmal falsch!)
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