Cracking the AP U.S. Government & Politics Exam, 2020 Edition by The Princeton Review

Author:The Princeton Review
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2019-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

In his Commentaries on the Laws of England, English jurist and professor William Blackstone said, “Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer,” and this number became known as the Blackstone ratio. Benjamin Franklin expanded this, writing “that it is better [one hundred] guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.”

In both England and America, the idea that the accused are innocent until proven guilty—the presumption of innocence—is one of the bedrock principles of the legal system. As a result, the burden of proof is on the prosecutor in criminal cases, and if there is any reasonable doubt as to a person’s innocence, juries are instructed to acquit.

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