Posted on 03/12/2003 2:07:52 PM PST by Illbay
If they have to be weighted against each other, I would rather see some guilty go free than to overlook police misconduct. Sometimes you just don't know if an individual is guilty. At any rate, we have a press and the internet that can argue this at will.
A false dichotomy. If a policeman exhibits misconduct, then he has committed a crime and needs to go in the dock along with the criminal.
I do NOT AGREE with releasing a criminal SOLELY because of police misconduct. That is unduly punishing society, which is innocent of any wrongdoing in the matter.
If the criminal is the Colombian drug cartel, you don't stand much chance either way. But I know I would rather have my door kicked in by a couple of scumbags I can shoot at rather than the Houston Police Department and their crime lab.
The irony of this case is that Sutton and his whole family are no doubt ardent supporters of Brown, Bradford, and their ilk whose incompetence and corruption sent Sutton to prison wrongfully. And they will go on supporting the same corrupt pols who prey on them.
I can agree with this, but if the police have actually manufactured evidence in a case, you will not get a jury to convict.
Interesting question. Bush and the Republicans better be sure about the majority of their claims. If we go in and Saddam turns out to be uncle fuzzy, we are in deep doodoo. But that is beside the point. Wars are fought for compelling reasons of national interest, and are judged by history, not courts.
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