From: "Phil Payne" 

> Police make mistakes all the time, but our system was designed to help
> protect people against those mistakes..  There was a time when
> Americans took pride in the fact that the erroneously accused had a
> right to legal representation and chance to clear themselves.  That is
> no longer the case.

There's also the bit about the right to face your accuser and to hear the
evidence against you.

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