He dissented in Miranda v. Arizona, meaning he thought it was completely ok for cops to kick the shit out of you to force a confession. Say something nice about him.
>>18660485Beta version of Clarence Thomas
As Chief Justice Warren said in the majority opinion, Miranda warnings were basically just a mirror image of the standard warning the FBI gave to suspects. The Supreme Court simply applied it to all law enforcement agencies.
He was an elite running back, might've made the hall of fame if not for WW2 cutting his career short
>>18660489Thomas is a libertarian/constitutional originalist whereas White was famous for having no real ideology outside whatever he thought made the most sense for the case at hand. He was also a human machine who wrote about 60% of the Court's opinions during his 32 years on the bench.
>>18660485I just read his dissent, the most amazing thing to me was when he said this will harm law enfircement and result in requiring more trials, which are never a sure thing as federal trials result in convictions only in 30% of the time. Today it's well over 90%. Were police in the 60s just constantly bringing random people to trial with barely any evidence?
>>18661113before shit like dna testing or various police departments actually communicating with each other, it was far easier to get away with a crime or two by just skipping town, in other words trying to get somebody was pretty much finding anybody that could be vaguely attached to it and hoping you eventually get it
>>18660485sure, but what is wrong with ignorantia iuris nocet
>>18661113>which are never a sure thing as federal trials result in convictions only in 30% of the timeMost cases are plea deals and never go to trial. It's relatively hard to actually get a conviction if you hire real lawyers (not a public defender) since you're forcing the state to actually prove their case. For example, Martha Stewart went to trial and ended up with all of five months in jail as the Feds couldn't prove that she was actually guilty of insider trading. On the other hand Sam Waksal just plead guilty to all charges and got seven years.
>>18661113if a case gets re-tried a couple of times due to mistrial, the prosecution is more likely to just give up and drop it because trials are expensive
>>18660531>White was famous for having no real ideology outside whatever he thought made the most sense for the case at handso he was based?a judge who served justice, not the law
>>18661239she was just convicted of lying to the SEC since they couldn't actually get her for securities fraud. that could carry a maximum of five years but the judge only gave her a couple of months (she was a woman and probably sympathetic to Stewart) and a couple of post-release conditions she had to abide by.
>>18661113The ironic thing today is even with Miranda warnings, most criminals are retards that admit guilt.
>>18660485That was Brown v. Mississippi that banned third degree interrogation and it was 30 years prior to Miranda, also a unanimous ruling.
>>18661456yeah but a lot of its basically entrapment these days and they can put you away for anything if they press the issue hard enough.
