JB/087/183/003

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Indirect

Raising Evidence

dirty business it is to prosecute in all cases in which the
either individuals have no natural interest to so to do, or the
interest which the public is conceived to have in
the punishment of delinquents suppression of the offence, is too great to be
trusted to the chance into in such hands. of chance individuals But of this hereafter.

Where you can get get two bring one witness upon
one matter, where you can get two witnesses to a on a
side fact instead of one you get a great advantage:
because if falsehood is designed you have a great
chance of detecting it by cross-examining them apart:
witness Susanna and the two elders. But by
coupling a nominal informer to your one witness you
get neither that advantage nor any other: you are
still forced to take up with your one witness, whom
if you if the reward you trust to has any operation,
you get upon such terms by such means as according to your
rules of evidence render him inadmissible. You
might just as well and indeed much better let the
witness prosecute and hold him up to view in the in circumstances
condition situation in which he really b is, with this bias upon
his mind: you would save trouble: you would obviate
delusion: and you would diminish by one half
the chance which the delinquent has of getting off purchasing impunity
by tampering with his adversaries. You would save
equivocation at least, and not to mention sometimes perjury: for it is
the general property one characteristic property
of this whole system of
restrictive rules of evidence
of the all these restrictive disqualifying rules of evidence, to while it shuts
out

Identifier: | JB/087/183/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	183	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27708
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