The Concern for the Truth in Legal Cases

Exodus 23: You shall not spread a false report, nor join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. The Lord is saying in your pursuit of justice, you need to acquit the innocent and you need to justify the righteous. And we even saw at the end of Exodus 22, he wants them to have compassion on sort of categories of people who are more likely to be oppressed than others.