Op-ed by Elad Hakim | Photo: Alamy
During a recent interview with Megyn Kelly, attorney Alan Dershowitz referenced a famous quote by Justice Robert H. Jackson, where he said:
“With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.”
Justice Jackson’s statement was a clear warning about the risks
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