One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.