“Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.”
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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.
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A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.
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Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
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In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
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To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.
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