Why is that a terrible quote?<p>Remember, there&#x27;s a <i>reason</i> that the process and traditions are followed. It helps provide (theoretically) a uniformity of enforcement.<p>In the case of your quote, the exact same mechanism for &quot;evidence found after the trial changes to innocence&quot; is quite possibly used for &quot;evidence found after the trial changes to guilty&quot;. It nudges up against double-jeopardy.<p>There are other problems with such an approach.