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Quote from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,


"For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape,
than that the government should play an ignoble part."


By:

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (more quotes by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. or books by/about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)


(1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"

Source:

Olmstead v. United States, 1928

Categories:

Crime, Government, Justice, Punishment

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