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People from other jobs are potentially in jeopardy for negligence though. If a truck driver makes a mistake driving a truck they could very well go to prison.

Also, judges can be malicious too.

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Right but truck drivers aren't constantly dealing with people who are lying to get themselves out of trouble.

And while all jobs include at least some element of dealing with people trying to deceive you, if I'm an embedded engineer dealing with a vendor overstating the low-temperature performance of their embedded compute module, the stakes are a lot lower.

The point is that when your job has an "larger than normal" impact on the course of someone's life you should not be able to ignore that responsibility. Responsibility should be matched with equal sized accountability.

I'd rather have a system that occasionally let someone go free because of insufficient proof than occasionally have people be imprisoned when they are actually innocent.

"Right but truck drivers aren't constantly dealing with people who are lying to get themselves out of trouble."

What do you think the dash cams are for?

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