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Due process is the mechanism by which the Constitution restrains government power. And yet, across the American criminal justice system, due process is increasingly treated as negotiable, procedural rather than fundamental, symbolic rather than binding.
The question is no longer whether due process is provided by statute. It does.
The question is whether it exists in practice.
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