Guilty Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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

— William Blackstone

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

— William Blackstone

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be…

— Alan Dershowitz

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

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

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

— Maimonides

“we are in danger of becoming a society in which prosecutors alone become judges, juries and executioners because the threat of high sentences makes…

— Harvey Silverglate

The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Alan Dershowitz

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

— Horace

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

— A. P. Herbert

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

— Brent Weeks