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I believe that the phrase/quote you're looking for is: "Better a thousand guilty go free than one innocent be executed."

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Blackstone's formulation: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer".

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Q: If thousands of criminals are acquitted no innocent shall be punished.what is the related maxim?
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