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Polygraph and CVSA Forums >> Action Alerts and Announcements >> American Polygraph Association Elections: Race for president-elect pits Daniel Mangan against Patrick O'Burke https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1433335650 Message started by Dan Mangan on Jun 3^rd, 2015 at 12:47pm

Title: Re: American Polygraph Association Elections: Race for president-elect pits Daniel Mangan against Patrick O'Burke
Post by Arkhangelsk on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 7:14pm

Wandersmann wrote on Feb 26^th, 2016 at 6:39pm:

I've been taught my entire life that, "rather 1,000 guilty men go free than one innocent man go to prison".

You are referring to Blackstone's Formulation:

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

Sir William Blackstone 1765