On 1/11/06, Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Jefferson said that it was better for 100 guilty men to go > free than for one innocent man to be imprisoned. We've lost sight of > that these days. > > Bob
Sir William Blackstone, an approximate contemporary of Jefferson, is to have said: "Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Same sentiment. No matter who may have said it first, I'm with you, Bob. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
