The Consequences of Rights

Ken at Popehat has a good discussion of the right to due process in the case of Fourtin v. Connecticut. Fourtin raped a mentally disabled woman but was released because the State of Connecticut charged and attempted to prosecute him for the wrong crime.   As we've seen with the right to free speech, having rights necessarily entails that there will be consequences that are "undesirable" in that we wished they would have been different.  Hence we wish "The Innocence of Muslims" had not been made, but defend its existence once made.  Likewise the right to due process lets some rapists free, but it protects the innocent from the state prosecuting us for crimes they did not commit.