[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s a side effect of the legal system. The average decent Joe or Jane on the street never gets a court case that can be pushed up to the appellate level for a binding precedent. What, every so often the police barge into the wrong place and then decent people might bring a case because they got hit? But criminal cases with unsavory people abound every day teeming in orders more of magnitude.

Anyhow, honoring law in cases like this is scarcely tantamount to winking at bad social problems like child sexual abuse.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Right again. It's a bit disturbing to see people not getting it, especially around here. If judges are free to simply ignore the law in order to convict bad people, it's just a short step from judges ignoring the law in order to convict people who the judges (and government) think are bad people. I would hope that four years of Obama would have been enough to show why that's a bad idea.