... the accused and guarding the citizens against abuses of power by police and other law enforcement agencies. Under this model all accused persons are seen as individual rights guarded by the Constitution and (2) Two basic values of the Due Process Model are that it relies on legal guilt and there must be equal justice. First, the reliance on legal guilt rests beyond that of the police investigation of factual guilt. The prosecutors in the courtroom must sort through the evidence and the surrounding situations to present a case for the jury to determine guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The motto of the DPM is that "it is better to allow ten guilty people to go free than lock up one innocent person", but this does not mean that the model is reluctant to lock away criminals. This creed exhibits that legal guilt must be proven in a court ...

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