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'It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted'

By John Hirst

'It's better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted'

Judges should order more retrials over unsafe convictions, says criminal review chief

The country's top appeal judges are failing to correct miscarriages of justice where they suspect the jury has come to a wrong verdict, the head of the body charged with investigating wrongful convictions has warned.

Professor Graham Zellick, the outgoing chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), said the Court of Appeal should order retrials in cases that have a "lurking doubt" about the safety of the conviction.

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Full post as published by prisonlawinsideout on September 27, 2008 (boomark / email).