Sentences with phrase «innocent go free»
We seek to find criminals guilty, while ensuring the innocent go free.
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We go out of our way in this country to try to insure the guilty get punished, and the innocent go free.
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One of the USA's founding fathers said something like it is better to let many guilty persons go free than to lock up a single innocent one.
«It is better to let 100 offenders go free than to punish one innocent person.
«I don't want to see arsonists go free,» said the investigator, «but I certainly don't want to see innocent people going to jail.»
Reading about the hardships faced by all those, free and slave, left behind when the soldiers went off to war, helps us understand that war is terrible, regardless of the reasons for it, and that the innocent are often the most victimized.
1953: The Adventures of Augie March, by Saul Bellow «I am an American, Chicago born — Chicago, that somber city — and go at things as I have taught myself, free - style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.»
Better that ten guilty men go free than to imprison one innocent man.
Where once the Court... concluded that it was far better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be convicted, today the Court reasons from a position of fear: Let's not get hung up on technicalities in the war on crime and terror, seems to the new ethos.»
You want to change a system that assumes that it is better that scores of innocent people be victimized rather than chancing that one guilty person go free and do something worse?
Each time an innocent person goes to prison, the guilty person is free to commit another crime,» Gutekunst said.
The Tories find support in a public that seems to question the justice of criminals not serving the actual sentences they receive, and the accepted law - school wisdom that we would rather see ten guilty people go free than one innocent person imprisoned.
When sex abuse is alleged today, the presumption of innocence is often set aside with the justification that it is better to convict an innocent person than to allow a real child abuser to go free.