Connick v. Thompson Encore
5-4
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Why Do You Think of a Criminal Defendant as a Human Being?
The only thing that explains this in my mind is that conservatives on the court truly do not conceptualize criminal defendants in these cases as human beings. I don't think there's anything else that actually explains this case. It's sort of deceptively simple, but he's like very clearly like running cover for the prosecutor here. Like you could find like clear instances of bad faith. And when legal commentators find something particularly cold, you've done something egregious. When those fucking robots have any semblance of an emotion. You've got a situation where a man was framed and as a result sentenced to death. The majority opinion finds that the conduct was not pervasive enough to warrant liability.
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