Thu
Feb
11
“ The criminal goes free, if he must, but it is the law that sets him free. Nothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.
Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643 (1961) (In response to Justice Cardozo’s worries about criminals “getting off on a technicality” in the debate over excluding evidence obtained during an illegal search and seizure).
