Trial and the rights of the accused

[Effete Snob]

6. Do you know that the Constitution has NOTHING to do with the "rights of victims"

Most of the Bill of Rights applies to persons who are charged with, on trial for, and even convicted of, a crime.

Those things are not there to make people feel good, and it is not there to do anything for crime victims.

Those things are there there to prevent us all from becoming the victims of a tyrannical government.

In order to deter due process violations, we have opted for a system that tries to minimize the incentive for engaging in them.

There is a potential gaming problem with that approach, but it is preferable to a lot of other judicial systems.