A law review article by Alexander Volokh, n Guilty Men raises the issue of why protecting the innocent matters even at the expense of freeing the guilty. From the earliest days of law school, students were told that the law favors a guilty man be set free over the conviction of an innocent man. We heard law school professors and other students talk about this. Legal interns may have heard something similar during internships at Public Defender offices. But where did this idea originate? more