Quote from Sir John Fortescue 

"I should, indeed, prefer twenty men to escape death through mercy,
than one innocent to be condemned unjustly."

Quote by:
Sir John Fortescue
(c.1394-1476) English Jurist
Source:
De laudibus legum Angliae [In praise of English law], (c.1470)
 
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