On Jan 11, 2006, at 9:25 AM, frank theriault 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.
I got the quote from my niece, a curator at Monticello, Jefferson's
Virginia home.
Bob
