Are you willing to change the procedural rights granted to everyone?

Question

Are you willing to change the procedural rights granted to everyone so that the police would need less evidence to convict someone of a crime? Understanding that this change would reduce your rights, which rights are you willing to give up?

Answer 1

None! Sic Semper Tyrannis!

Answer 2

Well I'm not a lawyer. So I'm not certain if this is a procedural right. It bothers me that a guilty person can benefit if a judge deems that there has been prosecutorial misconduct. I understand the whole state vs. thing. And I understand that the prosecutor is the state in a trial. But there has to be a way to punish prosecutorial misconduct besides throwing out evidence and benefitting the guilty.
That's just a thought. I really don't want the government to have any more power over the people than it already has.

Answer 3

First of all, police do not convict US citizens, that's the job of the prosecutor. Many prosecutors find career success through high-profile convictions regardless of the actual guilt or innocence of the accused.

The US has a terrible rate of convicting innocent people as is evident by the reversal of convictions because of DNA evidence. If anything, we need to increase the benefit of doubt for everyone.

Innocent people are falsely accused and convicted by either planted evidence or circumstantial evidence. Our rights are being taken away rapidly at this point in history.

To answer your question: I would not give up any procedural rights. The Patriot Act is abysmal.

Answer 4

Since you don't specifically indicate what "change" you're referring to, I'm going to answer the general concept.

There is no such thing as a "procedural right". There are procedures designed to protect a right, but just like anything else in life, there is more than one way to achieve a goal. You can change a procedure and still protect a right (possibly better).

I am not willing to oppose procedural changes simply because it's a change, and I'm not willing to concede that simplification of a procedure is a degradation of a right. Especially in the context that a "procedure" should also protect the victim's rights.

I'm not willing to surrender my rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This means that I have a right to assure the eradication of any idiotic bureaucratic logjam that allows criminals that have violated my rights to escape prosecution.

Answer 5

Wouldn't it be easier to just get rid of the incorporated municipal states of America and live in just the United States of America with a "constitutional representative republic" as it should be? Yes ppl we do in fact have two governmental structures operating within the United States. One would be that elected by the people. The other is the one that thinks they can override the government the ppl actually elected. I would actually describe it more as a corporate entity. Got a social security number? A Birth certificate? Marriage License? Do you have the manufacturers certificate of origin for your vehicle? Or did you send in for a STATE issued title? Wise up. You haven't lost your rights(yet per se). Just figure out how to get them back. They are in fact there but you must look and research for yourselves. Once you find it, things will become much more simple for you.

Answer 6

Not without a fight. To my last dying breath.

We only have those rights we can defend.

If we surrender them, we lose. All of us. Because once the govt can do whatever it wants, we can't get those rights back.

That's the whole reason I became an attorney in the first place.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Absolutely not! Too many innocent people have gone to the gas chamber already for us to even consider a change like that.

Answer 9

No.