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Blackstone's ratio
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English
Etymology
After the English jurist William Blackstone, who wrote, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
Proper noun
The ratio of guilty people who go unpunished by the law to innocent people who are unjustly convicted.
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