No. Criminals do not give up their rights. In effect, you're saying that when someone is "accused" of a crime, then they lose their rights. They can be beat up. Witnesses can be paid and bribed, etc.
The Constitution has worked for as long as it has because there are some out there who actually follow it. Don't let your justice zeal get the best of you.
parsy, the smart.
Yes, criminals do give up their rights. I didn't say that "accused" criminals don't have rights prior to conviction that must be observed, but when a guy does something like rape and kill a little girl, where does he get the nerve to come back later, after his conviction, and say "They said mean things about me and made everyone hate me". Please...
He went through due-process, which means he has lost many of his rights.
This is just another delay tactic.
It took him (his lawyers) 15 years to come up with this excuse.
Why should we bend over backwards for these guys who rape and murder?
Reminds me of all the liberals complaining about Gitmo. Why should we serve gormet meals and provide full trials to terrorists when all it is doing is giving them a chance to weasel out of it?
Of course they do. Of course, we have to err on the side of caution until we can confidently establish that they actually committed the crime, but the rights are waived at the time the crime occurs.