Who quoted ‘’It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer''?

The question is asking who said the famous quote "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer?" and the answer is William Blackstone. This quote means that it's more important to let ten guilty people go free than to punish one innocent person. William Blackstone was an English legal scholar who lived from 1723 to 1780 and is known for his influential work on English law.