{"id":896,"date":"2009-06-02T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T09:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/06\/scott-roeder-got-off-on-one-of.html"},"modified":"2009-06-02T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T09:07:26","slug":"scott-roeder-got-off-on-one-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/06\/scott-roeder-got-off-on-one-of.html","title":{"rendered":"Scott Roeder Got Off On One of Those Liberal Technicalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Roeder, the man charged with murdering abortion doctor George Tiller, had been arrested once before in 1996, on charges of holding illegal explosives.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/02\/us\/02tiller.html?pagewanted=2&amp;ref=us\">Ironically, he eventually got out of jail when courts ruled that police had improperly searched his car, <\/a> The New York Times reported.<br \/>\nIn other words, he was sprung on exactly the sort of &#8220;technicality&#8221; that liberals usually defend and conservatuives decry &#8212; proof that these sorts of protections don&#8217;t inherently favor any particular type of accused person.<br \/>\nEven more ironically &#8212; given that Roeder seemed to believe Big Brother was stomping on his freedoms &#8212; he was sprung because of America&#8217;s strong commitment to civil liberties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Roeder, the man charged with murdering abortion doctor George Tiller, had been arrested once before in 1996, on charges of holding illegal explosives. 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