Padilla
Doug Henwood
dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 14 11:37:46 PDT 2002
How many cases are there really of serious criminals being released
on technicalities? And, analagously, how many "ticking bomb" cases
are there of the sort used to justify torture? Both sounds like
instances of pseudo-plausible but extreme examples used to justify
the erosion of normal rights.
Doug
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