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To: artichokegrower
Where this legal term originated... ROCHIN v. PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA.

Applying these general considerations to the circumstances of the present case, we are compelled to conclude that the proceedings by which this conviction was obtained do more than offend some fastidious squeamishness or private sentimentalism about combatting crime too energetically. This is conduct that shocks the conscience. Illegally breaking into the privacy of the petitioner, the struggle to open his mouth and remove what was there, the forcible extraction of his stomach's contents—this course of proceeding by agents of government to obtain evidence is bound to offend even hardened sensibilities. They are methods too close to the rack and the screw to permit of constitutional differentiation.

5 posted on 12/24/2022 6:05:06 PM PST by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: DoodleBob

Thanks - I knew the principle but had forgotten the source.

;-)


9 posted on 12/24/2022 10:37:40 PM PST by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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