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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