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Bobby (rvinson@liberdon.com)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 03:30:48 JST Bobby
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"We find, in the rules laid down by the greatest English Judges, who have been the brightest of mankind; We are to look upon it as more beneficial, that many guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person should suffer. The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished…"
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  Blackstone's ratio
  
  In criminal law, Blackstone's ratio (more recently referred to sometimes as Blackstone's formulation) is the idea that: It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s. The idea subsequently became a staple of legal thinking in jurisdictions with legal systems derived from English criminal law and continues to be a topic of debate. There is also a long pre-history of similar sentiments going back centuries in a variety of legal traditions. In the United States, high courts in individual states continue to adopt specific numerical values for the ratio, often not 10:1. As of 2018, courts in 38 states had adopted such a position. In Blackstone's Commentaries The phrase, repeated widely and usually in isolation, comes from a longer passage, the fourth in a series of five discussions of rules...
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  Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 03:30:49 JST Coach Pāṇini ®
  
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  1. “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” - Adam Smith
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