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Teddy Roosevelt: “The danger nowadays is, not that the innocent man will be convicted of crime, but that the guilty man will go scot-free.”

On the recordApril 17, 1906
The danger nowadays is, not that the innocent man will be convicted of crime, but that the guilty man will go scot-free.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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