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Cursed Fate
Once upon a not so long ago, even words spoken could get you accused of all sorts of things. Now it’s a new sort of dogma that we have to conform to or pay a wicked price. Funny isn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Banal, Blame, Cause, Challenge, Charge, Clever, Contempt, Cunning, Curse, Deception, Deprive, Deveiver, Device, Dogma, Dream, Evil, Fate, Fire, Flames, Glower, Grow, Guilty, Head, Hell, Honest, Ill Manner, Innocent, Inspire, Judgment, Know, Men, Moral, Nightmare, Outlaw, Photograph, Pity, Poem, Poetry, Power, Pretty, Price, Said, Scheme, Shame, Sharp, Slip of Tongue, Smil, Theive, Thought, Tongue, Trial, Undone, Weary, Wicked, Word, Young
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First Principles: It Is Better That Ten Guilty Persons Escape Than That One Innocent Suffer
“For the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.” – Sir William Blackstone (Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9th ed., book 4, chapter 27, p. 358 (1783) It is seldom … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Better, Escape, First Principles, Guilty, Hold, Innocent, Law, Person, Sir William Blackstone, Suffer, Ten
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Thought For the Day: People Should Be As Concerned With Clearing the Innocent As Punishing the Guilty
“I hear much of people’s calling out to punish the guilty, but very few are concerned to clear the innocent.” – Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
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Tagged Call, Clear, Concern, Daniel Defoe, Few, Guilty, Hear, Innocent, People, Punish, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: It Is Better That Ten Guilty Persons Escape Than One Innocent Suffer
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.” – William Blackstone This guiding principle behind the legal system in the United States has stood like a strong wall between justice and injustice and is a cornerstone … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th Amendment, Escape, First Principles, Guilty, Innocent, One, Persons, Suffer, Ten, William Blackstone
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