Jackie (Taylor) said:
Maybe limiters are expensive. Feds didn't seem to have a whole lot to do with technology of reduced size.
Precisely--so why not use it after Blake's first trial, when he had been convicted of violent rebel activity?
As to containing Blake's violent impulses, I think his impulses would be more of a cerebral nature, thus would reduce a limiter's effectiveness on him. And the crime he was convicted of was not one of a violent nature.
But the crime he was CONVICTED of the second time was a pure put-up job because of his initial political activity. One of the many ironies of the series, BTW, is that at the time of his second arrest, he was doing his damnedest to be a model citizen--he balked at going outside, and only turned up because of the bait of information about his family.
-(Y)