Re: 'It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted'
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 at 13:33:40, Webmanager_CritEst
wrote in uk.legal :
>>
>> Oh, you think so? Surely you mean "at times, the convictions is set aside as
>> unsafe". The judge is responsible for any error there may be, and many a
>> guilty man has been let off on a technicality.
>
>As it should be. The Reasonable Man does not have the capacity to make
>such decisions, without regular error.
>
The only problem being *you have guilty men walking free*!
IMO technicalities should just result in retrials, not outright
acquittals.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham
date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:55:56 GMT
author: Paul Hyett lid
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