all for one or one for all

All for one or one for all ?

“English jurist and professor William Blackstone [once] said ‘Better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer,” ( qtd. in Meltzer 106). Benjamin Franklin went even further and said “that it is better [100] guilty persons should escape than that one innocent should suffer" (qtd. in Meltzer 106);The Christians said it is better to leave the “99 sheep on the mountains and go in search for the one that is straying.” ( New American Standard Bible,Matthew. 18.12-14). The idea of looking out for one person, even over the sake of others, has long been expressed through political,historical,and religious sources. Out of the first ten amendments to the United States constitution four have to do with Procedural due process or, in other words, the rights of the accused.The question lies in whether it is better for 100 murders to be acquitted for the sake of one innocent person or if it is better for that one person to be forced to serve as a sacrifice, a mockingbird per say, to society.Ultimately it is better for that one innocent not to suffer and the 100 criminals to be let free and that principle should stay reflected in our court system.

One example of a criminal getting loose is the State of Florida v Casey Marie Anthony case.The trial was a Florida about a teenage mother, Casey, who murdered her young Daughter and was acquitted. Her car was said to have, at one time, held a dead body in it. Also body,Caylee’s size, was found in the woods near Casey's home. Casey did not report her daughter missing for 31 days. In the time that she knew her daughter was gone she got a beautiful life tattoo, and she went out drinking and dancing with friends. Pre...

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...rect evidence this may have confused the jurors into thinking that the circumstantial evidence was not enough to convict Casey. I want to address circumstantial vs direct evidence and jury instructions in my paper and this will help me to do so. I know I don't

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