[sargon]

Better 1000 guilty men go free than one innocent person [be wrongly convicted.]

Nonsense.

No. Common sense. Regardless of the various paraphrasings of that quote, it's a foundational principle of our entire American system.

When did you lose sight of that? Only a statist could think that it's OK for the innocent to get f----d as long as we get some guilty ones too...

[montag813]

Better 1000 guilty men go free than one innocent person [be wrongly convicted.] Nonsense. No. Common sense. Regardless of the various paraphrasings of that quote, it's a foundational principle of our entire American system.

That's not what the poster said. He said "than one innocent person spend a night in jail." THAT is what I said "nonsense" to. One night in jail vs. freeing 1000 guilty men? Absurd.

[montag813]

Better 1000 guilty men go free than one innocent person [be wrongly convicted.] Nonsense. No. Common sense. Regardless of the various paraphrasings of that quote, it's a foundational principle of our entire American system.

That's not what the poster said. He said "than one innocent person spend a night in jail." THAT is what I said "nonsense" to. One night in jail vs. freeing 1000 guilty men? Absurd.