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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'

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.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

Not all political prisoners are innocents.