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

MM 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.

Well, in that case you don't have a system of justice. Simple as. Try
arguing the case for the death penalty on that basis and see how far
you get.


Our justice system seemed to be quite happy to convict and kill innocent people when we had the death penalty? What do you think has changed?

MM
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