That’s not the reason that our founding fathers indicated... :-)
You’re confusing the results that sometimes happens with the “reasons” why the founding fathers set up our system the way they did...
In fact, I believe that those founding fathers thought that it was *preferred* that some of the guilty possibly go free, rather than even *one* innocent person be convicted...
They realized that if you made it difficult for the “state” to convict people that this would mean that some guilty people would go free. But, if you made it so that you could *always* convict the guilty ones — that this would mean some of the innocent would be caught up in the process. They decided it was preferable that some guilty ones go free...
Ooops. Is my cynicism showing?
They would be sad today. . .seeing how just how many go free and too often because the 'spirit' of the law has been replaced with the semantics of the 'meaning of is'. And while you have the 'right to a fair trial'; this should not preclude one's responsibility to make it an honest trial.