It was one of Scalia's more famous positions: That, just because you were wrongly convicted and hadn't actually committed any crime, the legal system had no obligation to avoid punishing you. The specific quote I used was from a case where he argued that an inmate on death row couldn't win on appeal just because he was CLEARLY FRAMED. To Scalia, it didn't matter if the inmate actually committed the crime or not.
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Date: 2016-02-19 04:38 pm (UTC)