"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape, than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long & generally approv’d, never that

"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape, than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long & generally approv’d, never that I know of controverted." – in a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Benjamin Vaughan, 14 March 1785 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-43-02-0335 https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-43-02-03...