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33: 421:. He suggests that "the guilty are liable to punishment, whereas the innocent are not" making the punishment of the innocent manifestly unjust, therefore the innocent should face no prospect of being punished; and Blackstone's Ratio is a means to this end. He has, however, criticised the fact that Blackstone's ratio offers a static burden of proof, wherein prosecuting someone facing trial for a $ 10 fine would require the same standard of evidence as prosecuting someone facing the death penalty—under Blackstone's ratio at least. He comments: "If the tolerance for wrongful convictions varied based on the punishment, it would more accurately track our—or at least my—moral intuitions", and suggests that the greater the consequence of a guilty verdict, the greater the standard of proof required. 790:
salvation of the criminal! Let other nations think of retribution and the letter of the law, we will cling to the spirit and the meaning—the salvation and the reformation of the lost. If this is true, if Russia and her justice are such, she may go forward with good cheer! Do not try to scare us with your frenzied troikas from which all the nations stand aside in disgust. Not a runaway troika, but the stately chariot of Russia will move calmly and majestically to its goal. In your hands is the fate of my client, in your hands is the fate of Russian justice. You will defend it, you will save it, you will prove that there are men to watch over it, that it is in good hands!”
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that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished; for guilt and crimes are so frequent in the world, that all of them cannot be punished; and many times they happen in such a manner, that it is not of much consequence to the public, whether they are punished or not. But when innocence itself, is brought to the bar and condemned, especially to die, the subject will exclaim, it is immaterial to me, whether I behave well or ill; for virtue itself, is no security. And if such a sentiment as this, should take place in the mind of the subject, there would be an end to all security what so ever.
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the development of diagnostic testing in the 1920s. From a mathematical point of view, the Ratio is methodologically flawed, and once the Ratio lost its claim to the authority of mathematics, its usefulness declined. Today, its former role in justifying the policies of the criminal courts is primarily occupied by
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Volokh considers two criminal cases in which the defense told the jury "that no innocent person should be convicted and that it is better that many guilty go unpunished than one innocent person be convicted" as references to a Blackstone's ratio with values of both "infinite" and "many" guilty men to
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in particular lays down two rules most prudent and necessary to be observed: 1. Never to convict a man for stealing the goods of a person unknown, merely because he will give no account how he came by them, unless an actual felony be proved of such goods; and, 2. Never to convict any person of murder
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The immediate precursors of Blackstone's ratio in English law were articulations by Hale (about 100 years earlier) and Fortescue (about 300 years before that), both influential jurists in their time. Hale wrote: "for it is better five guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person
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st.847:“Better acquit ten guilty men than punish one innocent man! Do you hear, do you hear that majestic voice from the past century of our glorious history? It is not for an insignificant person like me to remind you that the Russian court does not exist for the punishment only, but also for the
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and, like the Ratio, quantitative in a loose way. Thus the Ratio's rise "can be seen as a new kind of buttress of the law that was required in a new kind of society." He has explained its more recent decline as a reflection of a more sophisticated mathematical awareness in society, as reflected in
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as saying, "Avoid legal punishments as far as possible, and if there are any doubts in the case then use them, for it is better for a judge to err towards leniency than towards punishment". A similar expression reads, "Invoke doubtfulness in evidence during prosecution to avoid legal punishments".
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We find, in the rules laid down by the greatest English Judges, who have been the brightest of mankind; We are to look upon it as more beneficial, that many guilty persons should escape unpunished, than one innocent person should suffer. The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community,
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Other statements, some even older, which seem to express similar sentiments have been compiled by Alexander Volokh. A vaguely similar principle, echoing the number ten and the idea that it would be preferable that many guilty people escape consequences than a few innocents suffer them, appears as
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The story is told of a Chinese law professor, who listened as a British lawyer explained that Britons were so enlightened that they believed it was better that ninety-nine guilty men go free than that one innocent man be executed. The Chinese professor thought for a second and asked, "Better for
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Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked? What if there are fifty righteous within the city? Will you consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous who are in it? ... What if ten are found there?" He said, "I will not destroy it for the ten's sake."
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The phrase was absorbed by the British legal system, becoming a maxim by the early 19th century. It was also absorbed into American common law, cited repeatedly by that country's Founding Fathers, later becoming a form of words drilled into law students all the way into the 21st century.
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The idea subsequently became a staple of legal thinking in jurisdictions with legal systems derived from English criminal law and continues to be a topic of debate. There is also a long pre-history of similar sentiments going back centuries in a variety of legal traditions.
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custody. "I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent." Asked whether the 25% margin was too high, Cheney responded, "I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective. ... I'd do it again in a minute."
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in English law had made similar statements previously, some kind of explanation is required for the enormous popularity and influence of the phrase across all the legal systems derived from English law in the wake of the publication of Blackstone's
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used a similar saying, although in French his thought is stated differently than in the English translation: "It is from him that the nations hold this great principle, thet it is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent man."
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Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord. He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
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Particularly in the United States, Blackstone's ratio continues to be an active source of debate in jurisprudence. For example Daniel Epps and Laura Appleman exchanged arguments against and in favour of its continuing influence in the
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G. Tim Aynesworth, An illogical truism, Austin Am.-Statesman, 18 April 1996, at A14. Specifically, it is "drilled into head over and over again." Hurley Green, Sr., Shifting Scenes, Chi. Independent Bull., 2 January 1997, at
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wrote that "the Exalted One has shut this door" against the use of presumptive evidence, for "it is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death."
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Blackstone would have put the probability standard for proof "beyond a reasonable doubt" at somewhat more than 90%, for he declared: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."
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Maimonides argued that executing an accused criminal on anything less than absolute certainty would progressively lead to convictions merely "according to the judge's caprice" and was expounding on both
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Cullerne Bown has argued that both the rise and fall in significance of the Ratio can be explained by the growing mathematisation of society. It rises to prominence at about the same time as
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In the United States, high courts in individual states continue to adopt specific numerical values for the ratio, often not 10:1. As of 2018, courts in 38 states had adopted such a position.
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Fourthly, all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously, for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. And Sir
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or manslaughter till at least the body be found dead; on account of two instances he mentions where persons were executed for the murder of others who were then alive but missing.
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So when God destroyed the cities of the plain, he remembered Abraham, and he brought Lot out of the catastrophe that overthrew the cities where Lot had lived.
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adapted Fortescue's statement and wrote, "It were better that Ten Suspected Witches should escape, than that one Innocent Person should be Condemned."
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an innocent one. He notes its importance in the inspiration of Western criminal law, but concludes by citing a question of its soundness:
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The phrase, repeated widely and usually in isolation, comes from a longer passage, the fourth in a series of five discussions of rules of
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personalities tend to take the opposite view. According to the Communist defector, Jung Chang, similar reasoning was deployed during the
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It has been claimed that the Ratio contains the message that government and the courts must err on the side of bringing in verdicts of
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referenced this principle while saying that it is not applicable to the context of preventing terrorist attacks. Former American
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Cullerne Bown, William (2023). "An epistemic theory of the criminal process, Part II: Packer, Posner and epistemic pressure".
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Henri Locard, Pol Pot's Little Red Book: The Sayings of Angkar Chang Mai (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2005), pp. 208-209.
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The Russian lawyer Oleg Surmachev on his website provides information about the German lawyer from Reval (modern
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Cullerne Bown, William (2018). "Killing Kaplanism: Flawed methodologies, the standard of proof and modernity".
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has supported the essence of Blackstone's ratio. He submits that punishing the innocent "violates notions of
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stated it as: "it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer".
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9 Benjamin Franklin, Works 293 (1970), Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan (14 March 1785)
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articulated the social principle of the greatest good for the greatest number, the starting point for
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procedures, and "the percentage of innocent persons among the pool of charged defendants".
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Blackstone's principle influenced the nineteenth-century development of "beyond a
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Epps, Daniel (9 February 2015). "The Consequences of Error in Criminal Justice".
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Lawson, Dominic (8 April 1995), "Notebook: The Voters Want Cash, Mr. Clarke",
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Two Models theory, an expanded doctrine of rights, and arguments drawn from
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also expanded upon the rationale behind Blackstone's Ratio when he stated:
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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
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Defending the human spirit: Jewish law's vision for a moral society
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argues that this is too simplistic, ignoring such factors as
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Some 300 years before Fortescue, the Jewish legal theorist
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Pi, Daniel; Parisi, Francesco; Luppi, Barbara (2020).
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Index

Blackstone's formulation

William Blackstone
criminal law
William Blackstone
Commentaries on the Laws of England
presumption
Matthew Hale

Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
British soldiers
Boston Massacre
John Adams
Maimonides
Exodus
Jami' al-Tirmidhi
Al-Tirmidhi
Muhammad
Sodom and Gomorrah
Genesis
Sodom
Lot
Salem witch trials
Increase Mather
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov
Russian
Peter the Great
Voltaire

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