Justice Scalia, with whom The Chief Justice, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Thomas join, dissenting. In a sensible system of criminal justice, wrongful conviction is avoided by establishing, at the trial level, lines of procedural legality that leave ample margins of safety (for example, the requirement that guilt be proved beyond a reasonable doubt) — not by providing recurrent and repe…
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