I don’t think taxpayers should be punished for the bad judges of the state.
Its not necessarily bad judges, cops or prosecutors. Sometimes it is. But unfortunately, lay persons don’t understand that eyewitness testimony is the worst evidence there is. And the other problem is we have strayed far from the principle that “better 10 guilty men go free than one innocent convicted”. Now “beyond a reasonable doubt” has been watered to mean “he’s probably guilty” or “he didn’t prove he didn’t do it” or even “he’s guilty of something, just look at him”.