It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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