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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I think Blackstone meant that it was better to let ten guilty people go free rather than convict an innocent person.
This was at a time that England had more than 200 crimes where the punishment was death so a wrongful conviction had severe consequences.
I don’t think Blackstone was referring to stop and frisks as the penalty for stopping and frisking an innocent person does not have the same impact as executing an innocent person.
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So just a minor violation of the constitution and then only in 88% of the cases.
We're not going to agree on this. Maybe we call it a glass 12% full and 88% empty situation.
My rights are protected by the same government that protects the rights of black people in the city. Those not committing crimes in the city are no less innocent, no less deserving of freedom than I am. If the government can find exceptions for taking away their rights today then there is nothing stopping the government from taking away my rights tomorrow - nothing.
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