What would you say is the worst miscarriage of justice: A guilty person found not guilty or an innocent person found guilty?
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Zack Be Gone - All Hail Firebrand.
ANSWERS: 9
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An innocent person found guilty.
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With a guilty person found not guilty, there's always a chance (like OJ) that they will commit or have committed another crime that they can be tried for, but an innocent person in Prison is a horrible miscarriage of justice.
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Definitely an innocent person found guilty. It's sorta like two wrongs in one... an innocent person is being punished for something they didn't do AND a guilty person got away with whatever they did.
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Well we need a scenario here: Let's say murder. It is unbearable to think that the guilty guy walked, but it is unconscionable and unbearable to learn that an innocent person would be found guilty of this. It's harder to answer when the question of a brutal child molester is on trial.
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I find this to be a foolish question. It is better to let a hundred criminals go free than to imprison an innocent person.
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"Better to erroneously release 100 guilty men than to incarcerate a single innocent one." [paraphrased; I forgot the author as well - (sorry)] ;-)
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An innocent person being imprisoned is the worst crime possible.
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Fantastic question and a hard one for me to decide on. I think that it might depend on the crime. If a woman was brutally raped, her assailant arrested, and then he got off? That would be a travesty to the system and a veritable nightmare for the victim. She might never feel safe again and have to live with the notion that there is no justice in the world (which wouldn't be true, but she might see it that way) Versus some mistake where a man spends 20 years of his life in prison for something he didn't do, only to get out with no friends, little family, incapable of getting a job and he was innocent the whole while? Wow, I can't decide. I think that the potential evil for both situations might level out for me. That is to say, i think that they are equally fcked up situations. sorry for the non-answer!
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good question,innocent found guilty.
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