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Anyway, this case is not really the best to have presented itself for asserting and/or defending certain amendments to the Constitution, Bill of Rights, etc...NINE people were shot to death, man...and they were all members of outlaw biker gangs!

100% WRONG. It is the "hard cases" like this that test the strength of the principles enshrined in our Constitution.

Blackstone said that it is better that 10 guilty go free than one innocent be punished. Someone else (?) expanded the ten to a hundred.

THIS is the underlying ideal that forms the basis of the protections guaranteed in the Constitution. At great peril do we turn our eyes away.

“Blackstone said that it is better that 10 guilty go free than one innocent be punished. Someone else (?) expanded the ten to a hundred”

That logic is anywhere between .91 and 9.1 percent hard to follow.

It is the "hard cases" like this that test the strength of the principles enshrined in our Constitution.

That is what came to mind for myself just recently, and then again upon sighting that which you responded to.

There are more than a few landmark decisions which involved less-than savory individuals & circumstance, in an array of cases often relied upon as demonstration of established case law.

You are correct.

Search & seizure, and questions relating to legitimacy of cause for arrest come to mind, but are by no means inclusive examples of the type of hard cases which have found their way into common Appellate-level citation.

Blackstone said that it is better that 10 guilty go free than one innocent be punished.

Our laws are less than Godly perfect. Our processes of application of those same imperfect constructions can be even worse. Just ask the dozens (many dozens?) of mainly black men wrongly convicted, then eventually freed in the State of Illinois alone on strength of DNA evidence that proved they could not have committed the crimes they had been convicted of.

THIS is the underlying ideal that forms the basis of the protections guaranteed in the Constitution. At great peril do we turn our eyes away.

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