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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Personally, I'm more happy with innocent people in jail than I am with guilty people walking free. People need to know that there is concequences for their actions. I have no problem if 125% of people who commit murder are procecuted, as long as that in that 125% the 100% who did commit the crime are caught.
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I suspect this is only true if you are not among the innocent people that are imprisoned unjustly.
In the Padilla case, I am uncomfortable knowing that the source of the "intelligence" that was used detain him is the same as that used to support WMD in Iraq.
Our system of justice has always had a requirement for due process with checks and balances. I don't see any good reason to abandon it now.