In message , Paul Hyett 
<pah@invalid.invalid> writes
>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.

I agree.

Luckily, so does the Court system.

However, you and I might have some disagreements at the margins about 
what amounts to a technicality and what is a substantive issue deserving 
of acquittal.
-- 
Richard Miller