Guilty or Not Guilty?

PETER HITCHENS: A brave, noble campaign. But I still don’t believe a man should stand trial twice for the same crime. (Steven Lawrence murder.)

I fully understand where Peter is coming from with this statement and I am certainly aware of the theoretical downside in allowing retrials after perverse verdicts but I feel that I must disagree.

There is one thing more important than the principles to which he so strictly adheres and that is uncovering THE TRUTH. We may appeal to longstanding traditions - Magna Carta, for example - only when these serve the public better than the alternative.

I have seen hundreds of 'Law & Orders' and cannot get my head around the US system which seemingly excludes evidence regularly on the basis that 'it is fruit of the poisoned tree'. I fully appreciate that this is aimed at protecting  civil liberties but surely, JUSTICE in its barest state is even more important.
I do not want our system to offer any comfort to the guilty. Only under a totalitarian state are there realistic dangers to the innocent.