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To: Respond Code Three
Not relevant - we're talking about wrongful convictions and due process and talking yourself into jail.
The American system, grounded in the British Common Law, has long erred on the side of protecting innocence. Thus we presume an accused person's innocence until they are proven guilty. As the preeminent English jurist William Blackstone wrote,"[B]etter that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." This principle can also be found in religious texts and in the writings of the American Founders. Benjamin Franklin went further arguing "it is better a hundred guilty persons should escape than one innocent person should suffer."*

*From Cato Institute comments on Blackstone's ratio

34 posted on 07/18/2024 11:01:04 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: from occupied ga

I agree that my cases are not relevant to the thread. You are the only one so far that is perceptive on this.


61 posted on 07/18/2024 9:56:59 PM PDT by Respond Code Three (Support Free Republic lest we eventually get a Republic which is not free.)
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