On 1/11/06, Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While some say that if you're charged and found guilty, you're more than > likely guilty. > > However, in recent years, DNA testing, various civil liberty groups, > attorneys with a cause, and so on, have found that a greater percentage of > the guilty than ever before thought, were innocent. > > Locking someone up for life seems a good alternative to having then "drawn > and quartered."
Absolutely, Shel. My personal philosophy actually goes beyond what you say, beyond what I said in my previous post: "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", said English jurist Sir William Blackmore, and I agree... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
