So better that more innocents be punished than risk any guilty going free? Truly, your love of the strictest "definition" of democracy is baffling, though I think most would vote against you.

No, Democracy gets it wrong in both directions with more of the guilty set free and more of the innocent sent to prison at least compared to a hypothetical ideal system.

I'm not sure how you get "punishing innocents" from publishing a very incriminating recording even though making such a recording is illegal.

You literally called the Salem witch trials democracy in action, and don't understand how I got to punishing the innocent?