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From: ted@teldata.UUCP (Ted Becker)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Endangered Species:Individual Rights
Message-ID: <428@teldata.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Jul-84 15:11:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 11 15:11:40 1984
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I feel the court took a step in the right direction.  It is a gross
miscarriage of justice to allow a criminal to go free because of some
technicality in the gathering of evidence.  If the police acted improperly
or unlawfully while collecting evidence then punish the police for acting
improperly but let the criminal conviction stand.  Does it make sense to
reward the wrongdoing of one person because of the wrongs of another?

What value is there in having protection from abuse by the police when we
are subject abuse by the outlaws?

The major abridgements of individual rights do not lie in the hands of the
police but in such things as building permits and zoning, business licensing
and regulation, labor laws, and legislator's ignoring the interest of the
people in favor of special interests.