We Can’t Put Them All In Prison
The noted English Jurist, William Blackstone, said in his famous Commentary, All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer. This view was repeated in the early United States political history by President John Adams when he was defending British soldiers from charges of murder during the Boston Massacre in the Revolutionary War. It is more important that innocence be protected...