No Butts About It Bruce Robert Nelson's conviction ought to be overturned. He ought to have maintained a civil suit against the Hennepin County Sheriff and the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis for violation of his federal constitutional rights. These rights include, inter alia, his rights against illegal search and seizure of the drugs from inside his body, and violation of his rights against self incrimination. These rights are granted to every American resident …
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…guilty people to go free than to convict one innocent person." The war on drugs, as a countervailing social policy does not rise to the level of a time honored constitutional mandate and justly so. When both policies come into conflict, the time honored constitutional policy should prevail. Therefore, zeal and desire to win the war on drugs does not and should not supersede such constitutional rights as have been transposed into concrete social policy.