Talk:dead to rights
It seems like the definition of "rights" as meaning "properly" is incorrect. In this case, "rights" refers to legal rights. Hence, if a criminal is dead to rights, he cannot expect to rely on his civil rights to escape culpability, because the evidence of his guilt is so clear cut.
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