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Originally Posted by George W. Bush
I'm sure the lawyers in the room will know better than I, but I'd much prefer a system which is chock full of false negatives than false positives (IE it's exponentially worse to imprision an innocient man than to let a guilty man walk).
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True, but should we have some guy with no law background and whose only knowledge of the case is what is fed to him by people with an agenda decide who gets freed? It's not like god talks to him and tells him who is really innocent. If just randomly pardoning people somehow was beneficial, why the hell not just free everyone?
Letting guilty men walk (and in this case they WERE guilty) doesn't make the system any better.