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Certainty Jeoeails Flaws, Acquittal Oy. Law. in consequence of them.
Privilege of Sanctuary has been long looked upon in this
Country as one of the most enormous abused that
the administration of is capable of. And one
should as soon expect to see an advocate for the
innocence of perjury, as for the adoption
of it. Yet for whatever has been urged against it,
may be urged with, and force again I the Acquitted
of upon informality in individuals, for
the counteracting of which the Humanity of the
English [our] Laws has been so frequently so
extolled. Of both it may be said
that they only differ from and these
more and less. Beccaria 35 Afili in degree — of both may be
equally said. that they make the [safety]deliverance of
the Culprit depend upon a contingency totally
independant of unconnected with his innocence [or guilt] — that just this contrary from
the
a better chance of evening
the guilty,
the guilty . the
a better chance for the
they afford, than to the guilty; may the on the contrary
that it is they are to the most likely to be more serviceable to the guilty,
than to the innocent. For this , are
undoubtedly the most likely more have recourse forto than
the . But it was been said and is ually
regarded, that it may happen a person, really
innocent, but who by the ignorance or prejudice of
the Jury, by the malicious perjury of a witness or by an unfortunate concurrence of
presumption has been pronounced guilty, may find
in them a refuge; of that it is better that a
guilty be delivered than one innocent .
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