
Originally Posted by
thebigspendur
That's a lot of mumbo jumbo. You can arrest anyone you want as long as you can convince a judge to give you a warrant. How many folks are sitting in prisons who were wrongly convicted and how many warrants have been issued on trumped (no pun intended) up charges. If I can convince a judge (and it isn't hard) I can arrest you and issue a complaint and make you look like the worst dude in the history of the U.S. That doesn't make you a criminal. It's the conviction that does that. Of course you can try someone in the court of public opinion for political or other reasons in the hopes of fostering the appearance of guilt to benefit a person or group.
In the end if you have no conviction you have nothing.