"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent person suffer." Blackstone's Forumulation, based on the same morality found in Yahweh's mercy on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Bible, is a longstanding ethic on which US law is based. This is where we get the idea of "innocent until ...

I would, I’d rather not convict the guilty than convict the innocent. These systems aren’t “not perfect” they are corrupt, they will be used as tools to further the ends of the violent.