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To: Publius Valerius
Society ensures that the guilty are adequately punished and there is also a significant deterrent to the state not to violate the rights of its citizens.

How do you figure? They get to pay the judgment with monies taken from the same citizens they violated. Only by removing the incentive for illegal collection of evidence can we be sure they won't weigh the cost against the benefit and decide to go for it.

55 posted on 01/27/2009 4:55:15 PM PST by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Still Thinking
They get to pay the judgment with monies taken from the same citizens they violated.

States operate on limited budgets, and legal judgments would be significant blows to that budget. I doubt that raising taxes to pay for repeated constitutional violations would be something that would sit well with the voters.

67 posted on 01/28/2009 7:18:38 AM PST by Publius Valerius
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