 | James Michael Martinez, William Donald Richardson, D. Brandon Hornsby - 2002 - 442 pages
...the execution of that murderer. 45. See Jeffrey Reiman and Ernest van den Haag, "On the Common Saying That It Is Better That Ten Guilty Persons Escape Than That One Innocent Person Suffer: Pro and Con," Social, Philosophy dr Policy 7, no. 2 (Spring 1990): 226-48, especially... | |
 | 2003 - 708 pages
...noted. ". . . all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously: for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." 4 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England *352 (1769). As to whether such a result... | |
 | Frederick Schauer - 2003 - 390 pages
...expected value. And perhaps that is so because of the strength of the maxim, first offered by William Blackstone, that "it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer."12 The value we place on liberty, and thus the graveness of the error of denying liberty to... | |
 | D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - 2003 - 554 pages
...the greatest burden. - Hosea Ballon 23. Innocence - «OTt5ia>l£lsBr«nui, «uL.lfil68r«niD 1784. It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. - Blackmone gsmuuuQsusmff, «51L uff,e$ 24. Inquisitiveness - «$]n51u-|u> 1785. I hate faces that... | |
 | Kathiann M. Kowalski - 2003 - 60 pages
...States' founders felt that all people deserved a fair trial, no matter what crime they were accused of. "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer," English legal scholar William Blackstone said more than two hundred years ago. America's courts treat... | |
 | Mark J. Cherry - 2005 - 288 pages
...Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology 18 (1987): 557-85. Thus, William Blackstone's famous assertion: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." W. Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765-69), chapter 27,... | |
 | Raymond C. Speciale - 2010 - 362 pages
...criminal proceedings. Sir William Blackstone, in Commentaries on the Laws of England (1809), wrote: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." Similarly, our legal system builds in many important safeguards that might allow guilty parties to... | |
 | Alan M. Dershowitz - 2006 - 374 pages
...century in England, it seems strikingly at variance with the famous credo of the formal common law "that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer."72 This credo refers of course specifically to the burden of proof for a conviction for felonies... | |
 | John Hasnas - 2006 - 136 pages
...criminal law that was captured by Sir William Blackstone in his oftquoted statement that "the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer,"12 and that is echoed in the US Supreme Court's declarations that "[t]he principle that there... | |
 | George P. Fletcher - 2007 - 400 pages
...that prevails in private disputes. See Jeffrey Reinian and Ernest van den Haag, On the Common Saying That It Is Better That Ten Guilty Persons Escape than That One Innocent Should Suffer: Pro and Con, 7 Soc. PHIL. & POL'Y 226. The goal of protecting society triggers a different... | |
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That it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer. 
