The following excerpt is from De La Cruz v. Tormey, 582 F.2d 45 (9th Cir. 1978):
lies, not in the abuse by the judicial authority of its functions, but in the people, upon whom, after all, under our institutions, reliance must be placed for the correction of abuses committed in the exercise of a lawful power.
McCray v. United States, supra, 195 U.S. at 55, 24 S.Ct. at 776.
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