Re: Girl jailed after lying about being abused by her brother

IanAl wrote:
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:53:11 +0100, Nick <Nick.Spam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Dave Baker wrote:

As I've said on numerous occasions if the crime is trivial you can't get the police to even investigate without independent evidence or at least one other person supporting your story. If the crime is serious you can be arrested and convicted on basically zero evidence or the word of one person. It runs completely counter to both common sense and natural justice and although no doubt many people who are accused based on just one person's word are guilty there's no way any sensible system should convict them. It's just tough that many guilty people therefore go free but far better than that innocent ones should ever be convicted.

These things aren't absolute. A workable justice system requires that a number of innocent people are convicted in order that it can convict enough guilty people to act as a deterrent.

Actually the conviction an innocent person acts just as well as a
deterrent as a conviction of a guilty one. Even if the case is
overturned later.


Sure justice needs to be seen to be done. Of course it is much better not to reveal mistakes, It undermines confidence in the system. Hence the reluctance of the appeal courts to act.


Think about it.

I have.
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