It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.
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Not all political prisoners are innocents.
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.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.
If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.
We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.
Criminals don't care what the law is.
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
Targets don't fight crime.
The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.
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