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  “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer” – William Blackstone, “Commentaries on the Laws of England” 1765 Blackstone’s Formulation, by which the 18th Century English jurist expressed the principle that the courts must always err, as err they must, on the side of the accused, remains to this […]

  In recent articles published on this website we have voiced our deep concern at the lack, in our everyday reality, of a robust and meaningful presumption of innocence.   Founded in the bitter life experience of those whom we support, our belief is that this supposed first principle of our criminal justice system is a […]