Which of the Founding Fathers said 'I'd rather see a hundred guilty men go free then see one innocent man convicted'?

**You're thinking of the 18th-century English legal scholar, William Blackstone.

And his exact quote goes like this:

"It is better that ten guilty men go free than that one innocent man be convicted."**

Or perhaps they are thinking of Thurgood Marshall's Speech "The SWord and the Robe" where he said...

"I was raised in the days when the prevailing maxim was: "It is better that a thousand guilty people go free than that one innocent person suffer unjustly.

Well, that's just what I was taught, and maybe I was taught wrong. But the suggestion that we as judges take sides frightens me for another, more fundamental reason as well."