Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back With Amanda Knox by Raffaele Sollecito & Andrew Gumbel

Author:Raffaele Sollecito & Andrew Gumbel
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Personal Memoirs, Murder, General
ISBN: 9781451695984
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2012-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

IV

JUSTICE

How do judges not feel tormented by the idea that, because of their mistakes, innocent people languish in prison their whole lives? A magistrate I know answered this way. It may be that half of the sentences handed down are unjust, he said, and therefore half of those in prison are innocent; but by the same reasoning half of those acquitted and set free are in fact guilty and should be in prison. Instead of worrying about individual cases, it’s important to look at the bigger picture and understand that every error is compensated by another in the opposite direction. So the scales of justice are in balance and we judges can sleep easy at night.

—Piero Calamandrei, Elogio dei giudici (In Praise of Judges), 1935

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