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I just remember that movie with Michael Douglas and Yaphet Kotto, that was a good movie. That bearded guy with the baggy eyes, who also was in "Foul Play", he's creepy in that movie.
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THe term is "fruit from the posionous tree". If a search is illegal, any subsequent evidence obtained in that search are inadmissable as a result. A person could be framed easily via circumstancial evidence obtained ileagally or via planted evidence: cops want to make a case against someone they feel is guilty- allowing anything to be admitted from an illeagal search calls ALL the obtained evidence's origin into question.
While restating all sorts of good stuff, it doesn't actually give me an example.
And while I'm typing, I should clarify my abortion position. I still believe that support and forgiveness are the best way to prevent a lot of abortions, but I also believe that late-term abortions should be illegal short of threat to the mother's life. Also, partial birth abortion is, so far as I understand the concept, inexcusable.
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How about this: allowing criminal proceedings (illeagally obtaining evidence) undermines any legal proceeding and no justice can truly be expected for the accused if the system itself is okay with admitidly illeagal prctices. It would mean that investigators and the evidence gathered are held to a more lax standard than any defense the accused might provide.
The only comparable defense situation would be if an alibi were proven faked but allowed as evidence anyway.
(insrt some quote about the first link inexorably chaining us all or somethin')
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Evidence obtained illeagally is as suspect as any refuted alibi.
Worse mabye....an alibi is usd for self-preservation but planting evidence or using illeagal means to get it is just going out of your way to fuck someone over.
The law must be a higher standard than the criminals it prosecutes or it's no better than them.
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-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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quote:Originally posted by Nim the Merciful: "You are a filthy, filthy leek, Ritten!" Nim Ertsop
No, no, that is just the smell of the pizza's rom my new job as a Jeff Jr. .....
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