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Let me get this straight. Your editorial (Oct. 22, "Justice takes a twist") would have us believe it is better for a convicted, confessed killer to go free (because of a police officer, obviously acting with good intent, along with a legal loophole whereby the prosecution failed to introduce something by mistake) than to bring justice to a dead man and his family? Keep in mind, we're not talking about a gross abuse of the suspect here. Is this justice or legal mumbo jumbo? Is it just me or is that insanity?

I know, all the civil libertarians and ACLU lawyers (as well, apparently, as your editorial board) who make their living off these absolutely unbelievable reasonings are howling and getting ready to wrap themselves in the constitution and denounce my unspeakable horrific ignorance of the law! But you will never convince me that the framers of our constitution ever intended, nor believed for one second, that our legal system would put more value on a convoluted technicality than a human life! Can anything ever be more valuable than that? If the victim were related to the editor, would the feeling be the same?

Heaven help us. Oops, I've probably violated some new law for that, as well.

Ed Cox
Greensboro