A lot of times in Media, Television, Movies, Games etc. you’ll see this leader of a huge crime organization where its shown that the government or law enforcement of that universe obviously know that they’re involved in illegal activity, but they “don’t have enough evidence to put them in jail” This is where my question comes in, what stops this government from just doing it anyway? If they obviously know they’re evil than why can’t they just stop them anyway, Its not like keeping them out of jail will be MORE helpful for the world?
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Constitutional law.
One of the responsibility of judges is to require the State to PROVE rather than just “know” that the person is guilty.
Think about the alternative: whenever anyone is inconvenient, the government could just say “we know” that they are guilty of arbitrary-crime-X, and put them in jail.
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