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Blackstone's ratio.
the saying that “It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than that 1 innocent suffer”
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About Blackstone's ratio
In criminal law, Blackstone's ratio is the ratio between letting guilty go unpunished and convicting innocent people, two forms of miscarriage of justice. There is also a long history of similar sentiments going back centuries in a variety of legal traditions. The idea subsequently became a staple of legal thinking in jurisdictions with legal systems derived from English criminal law and continues to be a topic of debate. In the United States, high courts in individual states continue to adopt different numerical values for the ratio.
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