[FairWitness]

Death row inmates get more time, appeals and reprieves than these innocents.

bttt

[GladesGuru]

And there is a good reason that the scum get so many appeals, while the innocents don't. Remember that ACLU was originally funded by teh old USSR to defend American Communists. Apples do not fall all that far from the tree.

The USSR was interested in destabilizing America. So is ACLU.

Nothing in the above should be construed in any way to the efffect that I disagree with Blackstone that it is better to free ten guilty than jail one innocent, for jailing the innocent undermines the trust in law which is the core of society.

Blackstone was right - the guilty will commit another crime and can be dealt with then. Public trust in law and its administration must be rightly earned. Jailing the innocent damages such trust and therefore is the reason for caution in court.