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One person's legal technicality is another person's constitutional right.

• thephyber 6y ago
  Or employment contract clause or union contract clause or missed filing deadline or a department procedure that was incompletely followed. Not everything that gets killers set free is a constitutional violation.
  • pnw_hazor 6y ago
    The government has to recognize legal contracts, it is in the US Constitution. See, Contract Clause, U.S. Const.
• fzeroracer 6y ago
  This seems like a rather odd excuse for a violent racist attack on a black man. I'm sure plenty of KKK members got off on 'legal technicalities', but that doesn't make it right.
  • pnw_hazor 6y ago
    Constitutionality does not imply "rightness or goodness". Criminal procedure (legal rules associated with prosecuting crime) is rooted in constitutional law.