What are the costs of exercising a constitutional right in the criminal justice process?
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The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Prescott, 581 F.2d 1343 (9th Cir. 1978):
A definitive treatment of the entire issue of the "costs" that properly may be visited on those exercising constitutional rights in the criminal justice process appears in Chaffin v. Stynchcombe, 412 U.S. 17, 30-31, 93 S.Ct. 1977, 1984, 36 L.Ed.2d 714 (1973). Mr. Justice Powell's majority opinion stated:
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