Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appellant had a constitutional or procedural right to be arrested earlier so as to prevent further offences
Decisão extraída
No. The court held that criminal law and criminal procedure protect the public and the accused from unlawful prosecution, but do not give an offender a personal right to be arrested in order to stop further crimes.
Fundamentação extraída
Recognizing such a right would invert the protective function of criminal procedure and improperly make the state responsible to restrain a freely acting offender; any state failure to protect potential victims may raise state-liability issues, not a personal claim by the offender.