What Chance Of Innocence Can Be Tolerated For Conviction?

[hasugopher]

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To all,

Which do you feel is worse: An innocent person being convicted of murder, or a murderer being let off? What if the only reason the murder got let off despite overwhelming evidence pointing ot his guilt was becuase some officer didn't follow some miniscule procedural duty?

The reason I ask this is that it seems to me that many more criminals get away without having to pay their proper debt to society than innocent people are convicted yet the focus is always on the case where the innocents are convicted.

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I am nearly certain that everyone will say that it's worse for an innocent to be convicted.

Put another way, your answer to david's original post would have to be higher than 50% to logically say otherwise. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]


which actually brings me to another point that I was going to bring up before you asked this, is there any crime for which a person should be locked up (used loosely- use your imagination) if they have less than a 50% chance of guilt?