Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quote

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.... If the existing code does not permit district attorneys to have a hand in such dirty business [wiretapping], it does not permit the judge to allow such iniquities to succeed.


Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438, 470 (1928)


For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.... If the existing code...

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.... If the existing code...

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.... If the existing code...

For my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.... If the existing code...