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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Different levels of search. A “weapons pat down” does not constitute a search requiring a warrant or probable cause. Even then a weapons pat down can only be initiated on a detained or arrested person. The former simply requires “reasonable and articulable suspicion” that crime is afoot. That’s a lower bar than probable cause but should be more than just a hunch.



  • Assuming he actually did that, of course.

    This is one of the main points. Whenever the death penalty comes up, proponents like to use what I call the “ultimate evil”. They propose some criminal that’s guilty of all the worst things they can throw at it (rape, child rape, murder, torture, etc). Then ask rhetorically if that person should be put to death. It’s easy to defeat that argument by asking, “After that person is dead, it’s uncovered that they were innocent (like actually innocent, not some technicality or only guilty of a lesser crime like manslaughter) and the victim of some elaborate framing by a massively corrupt system. Are you still happy with the outcome?” I’ll be one of the first to say there are people in the world that deserve to die. I can name the certain acts too that I’m sure many would agree with and maybe some that less agree with. But then who carries out the act? And are you willing to put 100% trust in them that they get it right every single time?