To: Dudoight
It is more than a tragedy when an innocent is convicted. It is a travesty when a guilty escapes conviction.
If we must err then, it is preferable that we err towards the guilty escaping than the innocent being caught.
10 posted on
04/10/2007 7:26:59 AM PDT by
JamesP81
(Eph 6:12)
To: JamesP81; Dudoight
It is more than a tragedy when an innocent is convicted. It is a travesty when a guilty escapes conviction.
If we must err then, it is preferable that we err towards the guilty escaping than the innocent being caught.
Agreed. If the justice system is imperfect, then it must lean against the State.
Benjamin Franklin thought it preferable that one hundred guily men go free than one innocent man be convicted.
25 posted on
04/10/2007 8:45:25 AM PDT by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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