That's beyond ridiculous.
Letting the guilty go free so that the wrongfully convicted don't go to prison?
Some logic.
How about build in the feature where the guilty don't get set free and the innocent don't get the chair?
Ever thought of that feature?
Read this.
FYI, I did NOT write it.
Blackstone's Ratio or Blackstone's Formulation
Among the most well-known of Blackstone's contributions to judicial theory is his own statement of the principle that it "is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer"
While this argument originates at least as far back as Genesis 18:23–32 in the Bible, as well as versions by
Maimonides and
Sir John Fortescue,
[121] Blackstone's analysis is the one picked up by
Benjamin Franklin and others, so that the term has become known as "Blackstone's Ratio".
As
John Adams, having studied Blackstone, put it:
It is more important that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world, that all of them cannot be punished.... when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, 'it is immaterial to me whether I behave well or ill, for virtue itself is no security.' And if such a sentiment as this were to take hold in the mind of the subject that would be the end of all security whatsoever.
Blackstone's Ratio is a maxim of
English law, having been established as such within a few decades of Blackstone's work being published. It is also cited in courts and law in the US, and is strongly emphasized to American law students."
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The concept is a basic tenant of US Law.