It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
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I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.'
Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.
I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be 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.
More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
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