Criminal justice Quote by Alan Dershowitz

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

— William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

— William Blackstone

I think most defense attorneys honestly believe the principle that says, 'Better 10 guilty go free than even one possibly innocent person be convicted.

— Alan Dershowitz

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…

— Robert Shapiro

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death.

— Maimonides

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and…

— Benjamin Franklin

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

— Benjamin Franklin

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point…

— Norman Lamm

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

— Ian McShane

There are many innocent people in prison.

— Brian Banks

A criminal trial is never about seeking justice for the victim. If it were, there could be only one verdict: guilty.

— Alan Dershowitz