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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
While made up accusations may occur, I would think in our system the number of those accusations are far outnumbered by unreported cases of assault.
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That may be the case. But our justice system recognizes that wrongful convictions are catastrophic, and sets the onus of proof high enough that the number of guilty who go free is far higher than the number of innocent who are convicted. That's intentional and expected.