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Originally posted by Spanky
The Star Chamber (Michael Douglas) was completely focused on the exclusionary rule.
In regards to Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson you have a poor memory. Just off the top of my head, in one dirty harry movie Clint Eastwood threatens the bad guy until he tells Eastwood the location of the girl he kidnapped and was torturing to death. They find the girl where he said she was but she was dead. But the guy gets to walk because none of the evidence surrounding the girl could be introduced as evidence.
The entire of plot of the Dirty Harry movie where the rookie cops (Mr. "Don't give up on us baby" is one of them) are dispensing justice on their own terms revlolves around cleary guilty criminals getting off because of the exclusionary rule.
The list goes on and on.......
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Does that list include any movies made in the past 20 years? I mean, leaving aside the overall stupidity of this discussion, the fact that you are relying on movies that were old when I was in grade school is particularly silly.
eta: Aarhgh!! STP.
But, let me add -- the Dirty Harry movie you are talking about Magnum Force, I believe it was -- involved a bunch of psycho-cops using the Exclusionary Rule and other "soft- on crime" bugaboos to justify their desire to gun criminals down on the street.
You suggesting we rewrite the law to suit that sort of person?
