Commentaries on the Laws of England¶
Blackstone, W. (1769). Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book the Fourth. Clarendon Press.
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Mechanisms¶
- Legal Burden-of-Proof Analog
- The standard is set that high because the two errors are gravely unequal: convicting an innocent person is treated as far worse than acquitting a guilty one — Blackstone's ratio that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
This sourceStates Blackstone's maxim that ten guilty persons escaping is preferable to one innocent person suffering.
- The standard is set that high because the two errors are gravely unequal: convicting an innocent person is treated as far worse than acquitting a guilty one — Blackstone's ratio that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
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