Eric M. Freedman says the lesson of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Landrigan case was “crime pays”
Arizona Executes Inmate After Supreme Court Clears Way
By John Schwartz
New York Times
October 27, 2010
Excerpt:
Eric M. Freedman, a law professor at Hofstra University, said that the lesson of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Landrigan case was “crime pays.”
He explained: “The state flatly stonewalled the lower courts by defying orders to produce information, and then was rewarded at the Supreme Court by winning its case on the basis that the defendant had not put forward enough evidence. That is an outcome which turns simple justice upside-down and a victory that the state should be ashamed to have obtained.”
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