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this thing called nature, says profit is in the scale: and melancholy to relate, but I cannot help being perfectly satisfied that frequently that has been the means of convicting many and many a man.

The bureau concentrates its energies on convicting thousands of drug dealers and bank robbers (who should be chased by local authorities), but mostly ignores white-collar crime.

There's nothing profound about recognizing a trade-off between convicting the innocent and acquitting the guilty.

A permanent independent prosecutor's office would not need to feel that its reputation depended on prosecuting and convicting everyone it investigated.

To reach this goal, its advocates argue, the barriers that stand in the way of convicting the truly guilty should be lowered.

However, this indicates that law enforcement is convicting before trying and is ignoring the fact that in performing illegal searches, they themselves are criminals.

Landsburg misses the point when he compares the damage done by letting 10 guilty people go free with the damage done by convicting one innocent person.

The trouble with a legal system that allows a significant probability of convicting innocent people is that it allows unscrupulous prosecutors to become petty tyrants.

That's one reason why Senate Republicans have expressed far less enthusiasm for convicting Clinton than House Republicans showed in impeaching him.

But instead he will continue to rely on public opinion to keep his jurors from convicting him, and in his State of the Union message will "propose scores of popular measures designed to secure poll ratings, even if they have no chance of entering law.

By convicting Steele of lying and then getting her to "flip" and finger in the Clinton camp got to her to change her story to version No.

But as the Washington Post puts it, "Byrd has been one of the Senate's toughest critics of Clinton's behavior in the Lewinsky scandal, and virtually every scenario for convicting the president has included the 81-year-old West Virginian defecting from the Democratic camp.

As soon as the news reached him of Burr's acquittal, he ordered Hay to press the indictment for misdemeanor-not for the purpose of convicting Burr, but of getting the evidence down in a form in which it should be available for impeachment proceedings against Marshall.

How dangerous must it have been for the sovereign to attempt to punish a clergyman for any crime whatever, if his order were disposed to protect him, and to represent either the proof as insufficient for convicting so holy a man, or the punishment as too severe to be inflicted upon one whose person had been rendered sacred by religion? About that time, a worthy member [Footnote: 5] of great Parliamentary experience, who, in the year 1766, filled the chair of the American committee with much ability, took me aside; and, lamenting the present aspect of our politics, told me things were come to such a pass that our former [Footnote: 6] methods of proceeding in the House would be no longer tolerated: that the public tribunal (never too indulgent to a long and unsuccessful opposition) would now scrutinize our conduct with unusual severity: that the very vicissitudes and shiftings of Ministerial measures, instead of convicting their authors of inconstancy and want of system, would be taken as an occasion of charging us with a predetermined discontent, which nothing could satisfy; whilst we accused every measure of vigor as cruel, and every proposal of lenity as weak and irresolute.

We think such considerations as the above, opposed to the objection that any very material cultivation of the minds of the common people would destroy their industry in ordinary employments, their contentment with their station, and their respectful demeanor to their superiors; and would render them arrogant, disorderly, factious, liable to be caught by wild notions, misled by declaimers and impostors, and, in short, all the worse for being able to understand their duty and interest the better, ought to go far toward convicting that objection of great folly,--not to apply terms of stronger imputation.

It must be some more forlorn predicament that would allow them any grace of rhetoric in saying, as in parody of Cato, "Witness heaven and earth, that we have done our duty, but the stars and fate are against us; and here it becomes us to terminate a strife, which would degenerate into the ridiculous, if prosecuted against impossibilities." On the contrary, the zeal which could begin so onerous a work, and prosecute it thus far, could not now remit without convicting its past ardor of cowardice lurking under its temporary semblance of bravery.

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