2007-03-16 01:58:24 · 32 answers · asked by thundercatt9 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Surely it would be the innocent that was convicted. Can not even imagine going to jail for a long period of time knowing that you did nothing wrong.
An interesting note as to this: People, in general, are mean and hateful when it comes to these types of things. Some years ago, a man was convicted of murder in Texas and spend some years on death row. He was exonerated by new evidence. He moved back to Ohio where he was from. And there was an uproar from the people there. seems they convicted him anyway and didn't want a murderer to live near them. There are many, many people that believe that the police never make a mistake, and that if you are arrested and then acquitted, you are still guilty, but you "got off." And the really sad part about that subject is that most police department believe that to.
2007-03-16 02:10:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe alot of people 'convict' themselves, so I believe it's a guilty one acquitted. I'm thinking of the impact on society when a guilty one gets off.
An innocent person knows they are not guilty, and even in little things, if you know you're innocent, your own constitution lets you
survive.
A guilty person acquitted, may feel they 'got away with it' cause theyre so good, sly, whatever, and it may increase their actions that got them guilty in the first place.
Look at it this way, even the guilty convicted ones-get acquitted cause of the way the system works. So, the drive should be internal, not external. That's why I answered why I did.
2007-03-16 02:15:43 · answer #2 · answered by nickname 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think an innocent person convicted is worse. However, I am sure for the victim or families of the victim, a guilty person being acquitted is devastating as well.
2007-03-16 02:16:46 · answer #3 · answered by Suzie Q 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An innocent person convicted. It is a rare occasion when a guilty person (who gets acquitted) turns over a new leaf and lives a moral life. There are usually LOTS of other opportunities to get a bad guy off the street.
An innocent person in a prison might not survive it...maybe come back out alive, but their spirit and will have been killed by the failure of the system, and by whatever way they have been brutalized while being incarcerated.
2007-03-16 02:09:44 · answer #4 · answered by sacanda_trina 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Guilty acquitted.
First of all no one is innocent. They're either guilty or not guilty. Secondly, the fear of wrongfully accusing the wrong person and "reasonable doubt" is the reason why rapists, murderers, pedophiles and their defense attorneys love getting a lenient sympathetic confused jury like the people who answered "innocent convicted".
I agree being wrongly incarcerated is a tragedy, but what's WORSE is the fact that the real criminal is running loose and someone else is paying for their sins. If there was no "reasonable doubt" and the facts pointed to an "innocent" man being convicted, then although the verdict was technically wrong, the RULES of a fair trial (justice) still prevailed.
Everyone can hate me and my answer but that's because there's too many overemotional bleeding hearts that can't take facts for facts and make a logical judgement.
2007-03-16 02:46:40 · answer #5 · answered by DeanPonders 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
An innocent person convicted. All of us have gotten away with something, but to be thrown in prison for nothing is a wrong doing by the justice system. A guilty person being acquitted is a mistake by the justice system too, but maybe in 'getting lucky' the guilty person will know not to do it again.
2007-03-16 02:04:13 · answer #6 · answered by joshnya68 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What is the innocent one convicted of? What is the penalty for the crime of which he was convicted?
Of what crime is the guilty, acquitted one guilty?
Maybe the innocent one is convicted of something minor, with a non-consequental penalty, and the guilty one is really a very violent person.
Or maybe the innocent one is convicted of an extremely heinous crime, while the guilty one is acquiited of a minor crime.
This question is not as cut and dried as it may first appear.
2007-03-16 02:18:44 · answer #7 · answered by Abdijah 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My guess is an innocent person convicted. At least with the guilty one acquitted, nobody gets hurt and the media will often keep an eye on them and prevent repeated offenses (ex. O.J. Simpson).
2007-03-16 02:05:52 · answer #8 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Convicting an innocent person is by far the worse of the two. Personally, when it is discoverd that a person was convicted of a cime that they didn't commit, they should be allowed to go out and commit that crime with no repurcussions, since they already did jail time for it.
2007-03-17 00:59:38 · answer #9 · answered by gotherunereadings 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A guilty one acquitted is worse. No one is truly innocent. The bible teaches us that we are all guilty in Gods eyes and we all deserve to suffer.
2007-03-16 02:21:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋