It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
Anyone can be falsely accused of a crime. Everyone accused of a crime deserves a fair trial.
When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.