"No," von Karma said. "Nobody is innocent."
"But, sir," Miles said, as tentatively as he could, "what if the police had made a mistake? The fault would be all on their side. In such a case, if the prisoner were innocent --"
Von Karma snorted. "You are obstinate, boy. Nobody is innocent. That man who shot your father seemed innocent enough. But look what he did. Better that a hundred such rot in jail than that one guilty man goes free."
And like so much of what von Karma said, of course it was true. It was so obviously true.
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