A review by kstep1805
Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights by Erwin Chemerinsky

4.0

A really important book on the undermining of Constitutional rights for criminal defendants almost since the beginning of our republic. We often think our justice system is one where we’d rather let ten guilty men go free than imprison one innocent person but due to a series of Supreme Court decisions over two centuries and police cultures that allow constitutional violations, we have a justice system that would rather imprison ten innocent men than let one guilty man go free. He runs through how often police and prosecutors can violate the 4th Amendment and there is almost no remedy allowed by the Court.