As a starting point, see the Wikipedia article on Blackstone's formulation [1]: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". It

As a starting point, see the Wikipedia article on Blackstone's formulation [1]: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". It refers to an interesting article, "n Guilty Men" [2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation [2]: http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm