Re: Blind support
"convicting an innocent person is much more abhorrent than wrongly releasing a guilty person."Whilst I agree with that statement, there are circumstances where it could be argued the other way. For example, if the guilty person you release goes on to murder a dozen innocent people, that's 12 people who have been killed plus all their family/friends etc. Detaining an innocent person affects one person + family/friends etc.
But it's not a simple numbers game. It's about "avoid punishing an innocent person at any cost" - which is why people go free who are "known" to be guilty.
'better 10 (U.S. 100) guilty go free than an innocent person is convicted", or something like that.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
