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NYT: Scott Turow op-ed on the Fourth Amendment

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Scott Turow's op-ed piece in the NYTimes today: Oct. 4, 1995: Reasonable Doubt, about the O.J. Simpson case, and going into the Fourth Amendment: Everybody hates the Fourth Amendment, of course. What a lamentable concept: the constable blundered so the evidence is lost. But the Fourth Amendment was not added to the Constitution to make most of us happy. It was intended to protect individuals from the state and to insure that political minorities would not be the object of random searches engineered by the political majority. When the Fourth Amendment and the other constitutional rules restricting police behavior are violated, it necessarily carries with it a strong message to our political minorities that the legal system is a two-faced joker, one that says, “We make the rules and we’ll follow the ones we like...continue to full post

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