Constitutional Law and the Criminal Justice System 6th Edition by Scott Harr,Kären Hess,Christine Hess Orthmann,Jonathon Kingsbury

Exercise 6

Referencing Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's proposition that it is better that some criminals escape rather than have the government involved in playing an ignoble part, what logic can you see in releasing a suspect who has confessed to a crime under circumstances that prohibit use of that admission, when the police know that person committed the crime? Where is the fairness here?