What happened to “the law holds that it is better that 10 guilty persons escape, than that 1 innocent suffer”? For the very minority of criminals, should litera

What happened to “the law holds that it is better that 10 guilty persons escape, than that 1 innocent suffer”? For the very minority of criminals, should literally everyone suffer? When it comes to private information at the hands of power, the suffering occurs as "with two lines of a man's handwriting, an accusation could be made against the most innocent, because the business can be interpreted in such a way, that one can easily find what one wishes."[0] 0. https://history.stackexchange.com/a/28484 https://history.stackexchange.com/a/28484