Sentences with phrase «protect guilty defendants»
That wouldn't protect guilty defendants from actual small harms spread over huge numbers of plaintiffs, but it would provide some shield from those bring claims grounded in seemingly deliberate ignorance.
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The four defendants — Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundström — were found guilty of having assisted in making 33 copyright - protected files available for sharing on the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay.
If we truly believed in protecting the innocent and supporting those falsely accused of crimes, should we not be imposing publication bans on the defendant's name until such time as a guilty verdict is rendered?
One last surprise: These opinions are fully consistent with Justice Kennedy's vote in Padilla v. Kentucky, recognizing that ineffective assistance of counsel protects a noncitizen defendant's right to accurate information about deportation before he pleads guilty.