It may be a priceless victory for legal scholars and trail lawyers, but it is a technicality for most ordinary people not versed in legal nuances. Most ordinary people want "justice" - meaning punishment of those who by common understanding violated the law or social norms, and NOT letting those who "did it" walk on procedural technicalities a.k.a "due process."
The irony of the left wing bullshit, as opposed to the right wing bullshit, is that the former takes for granted that the beliefs of the leaders and assorted intellectuals are self-evident to "the people;" or that the people have a "fasle consciousness" if they do not get the wisdom received from their charismatic leaders.
The pushers of the right wing bullshit do not make such an assumption. They make a real effort to translate the ideolgoy of the leaders to "common sense" of the people - that crime should not pay, that one has to work for a living, that books need to be balanced, etc. That is why so many folks love Rush Limbaugh, but think that Habermas is a brand of imported cheese.
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