RIGHTS OF AN ACCUSED: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
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“It is better thousand guilty persons should escape than one innocent person should suffer”i, the famous word of Benjamin Franklin that has been long accepted as a general rule throughout the world. In the interest of this widely accepted theory, it is vital that the law must provide all the means to prove the innocence of an accused. This means are guaranteed through several statutes today.
In this day and age, the judicial system should ensure that these rights are entirely accessible to them, not when he is proclaimed an accused but right from the moment when he is declared a suspect. With the media and society pushing the system, there is a lot of pressure on the judiciary to go in the way it desires. Even when we all have the hankering not to let a guilty person walk, we must also give him every opportunity to tell his story and prove it.
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