But then, they are having a pretty influential say in our governance.
From Tampa Bay Times.
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William Blackstone, the 18th century English jurist whose thinking influenced the nation's founders and American law, famously said it's better that 10 guilty people go free than for one innocent person to suffer.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia begs to differ.
In a blistering dissent Tuesday in McQuiggin vs. Perkins, Scalia stakes out a stunning position that the court's three other conservatives join: State prisoners with evidence of actual innocence should not necessarily get their day in court.
Welcome to "tough luck" justice. An innocent person moldering in prison for life is the collateral damage of a system willing to put expediency above the truth, and Scalia's fine with it.
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