Yeah. Lots of people parrot the phrase “better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer,” but then as soon as some specific guilty person goes free they go “no, wait, let me amend that…”
It does annoy me that the guilty men going free does tend to skew strongly towards rich guilty men, simply because they can afford to fight it out. But I’d rather everyone get the chance to fight it out rather than remove those opportunities. Maybe if everyone had the opportunity to fight for all their rights the police and prosecutors would start taking more care not to violate them.
Yeah. Lots of people parrot the phrase “better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer,” but then as soon as some specific guilty person goes free they go “no, wait, let me amend that…”
It does annoy me that the guilty men going free does tend to skew strongly towards rich guilty men, simply because they can afford to fight it out. But I’d rather everyone get the chance to fight it out rather than remove those opportunities. Maybe if everyone had the opportunity to fight for all their rights the police and prosecutors would start taking more care not to violate them.