Blackstone's ratio
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In criminal law, Blackstone's ratio (more recently referred to occasionally as Blackstone's formulation) is the idea that:
Blackstone's ratio - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1760s legal maxim by William Blackstone In criminal law , Blackstone's ratio is the ratio between letting guilty go unpunished ( error of impunity ) and convicting innocent people, two forms of miscarriage of justice . There is also a long history of similar sentiments going back centuries in a variety of legal traditions. The idea subsequently became a staple of legal thinking in jurisdictions with legal systems derived from English criminal law and continues to be a topic of debate. In the United States, hig
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