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Its Time to Fix the Federal Criminal System
It's Time to Fix the Federal Criminal System John D. Cline September 2011 34 Blackstone famously declared that “it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.”1 In today’s federal criminal system, that idea seems quaint. An acquittal is viewed as a sign the system does n