"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" - Blackstone's formulation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation)
Selamat Siang.
Tulisan berikut ini bukanlah untuk mendahului keputusan pengadilan yang sedang berlangsung; tapi saya ingin menekankan betapa pentingnya data dan fakta yang obyektif dalam kasus kriminal (criminal law) sehingga secara spesifik, dinyatakan sebagai berikut:
"All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds it better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent party suffer" (kutipan dari wikipedia diatas)
apa arti kata "presumptive" tersebut ???
menurut kamus online (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presumptive), disitu disebut "based on probability or presumption". OK ... lalu apa arti "presumption" tersebut?
masih dari sumber yang sama (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/presumption), disitu dituliskan:
Simple Definition of presumption
: a belief that something is true even though it has not been proved
law : an act of accepting that something is true until it is proved not true
: willingness to do something without the right or permission to do it