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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is unfortunate that we have permitted practices that were necessary three hundred years ago for the protection of…”

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It is unfortunate that we have permitted practices that were necessary three hundred years ago for the protection of innocent people to be elaborated, to be perverted, so that they become a means for allowing criminals to escape the punishment of their criminality.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York
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Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt critiques outdated legal practices that hinder justice for the innocent.

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