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Blackstone ratio: a standalone construct

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Evidence law

the maxim that it is better for some number of guilty persons to go free than for one innocent person to be convicted, traced across many variants.

In evidence law, Blackstone ratio refers to the maxim that it is better for some number of guilty persons to go free than for one innocent person to be convicted, traced across many variants. This meaning comes from Volokh (1997) in University of Pennsylvania Law Review.[1]

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References

Volokh, A. (1997). n Guilty Men. University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 146(1), 173. https://doi.org/10.2307/3312707

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