What would you do if a person you detest offers you millions to help convict and innocent person?

I don’t detest very many people, at all.

Almost certainly, I would talk to my lawyer to devise how best tactically to securely give the evidence to the police and possibly offer to further entrap the person I despise.

The only circumstances I can dream up where I might accept the money, would tend to involve some additional danger where I felt I had little choice, or tactical situations where I thought I could take the horrible person’s money and see him destroyed and later exonerate the innocent person.

For example, if he were a criminal who also stood to threaten people I care about if I don’t comply, I might conceivably devise a plan involving taking the money and using it to destroy him and get the safety and exonerate the innocent person.

Honesty is always the best policy.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
I have no doubt that some greedy bastards would do it, but I won’t and I won’t allow it, no matter what the circumstance or amount of money involved.

I would never help convict an innocent person for any amount of money. I would make far more money revealing their plot.

Firing from the heart, I wouldn’t do it.
Seeing millions on a table, might sway my morality…

As I think further on the question, it occurs to me that it should be asking if you’re OK being a lawyer…

I could not accept the karma attached to convicting an innocent person for any reason.

I would skim as much dosh as possible from the fucker before I sabotage and derail his efforts.

No one is completely innocent.

Gawd no. Convict an innocent person? That’s got to be one of the most immoral things someone can do.

Is there ever a situation where I might withhold the release of exonerating evidence? The only situation I can think of is if I had very good reason to believe that the person was a threat to society for some other crime or otherwise evil act. For example, if it was the CEO of Exxon that was being charged with a drug crime and I had evidence to the contrary, I might withhold it because the guy is working as hard as he can to kill everyone on the planet in a few hundred years to make a quick buck.

I would refuse the money and go to the authorities with this person’s plot to go after an innocent person.

I would still be in the same boat, financially, that I am currently. Good, bad, or otherwise, but to take the money for nefarious purposes would go against everything that I believe to be decent and acceptable.

I would turn it down. I’m doing fine and don’t want the money. Even if I needed the money, I couldn’t live with myself afterwards, so the answer is still no. I would turn it down, without hesitation..

I would love to have the money. I would turn it over in my mind every which way to see if I could find a way to accept and then turn the tables, after I collect.
It would twist my gut in incredible knots, but I would decline in the end.

Unquestionably, no. I have no interest in being obscenely wealthy. Taking money under those circumstances would be nothing short of obscene.

I wouldn’t do it. I manage quite comfortably on my pension so I wouldn’t even be tempted.

I wouldn’t belive that they would honor the bargin seeing that they have no honor so no. I might pretend to acquiesce at the start in case they consider killing me untill I could flee. As an innocent man framed in university for shits and giggles I feel personally inclined not to screw over someone else like I got screwed over. So no. I might just take my vengeance on the person offering me a million dollars to help with my grief.

Is double-crossing an option?

Get as much of the money as you can up front.
Present the evidence in your possession to the court, anonymously if possible.

They’re arrested. The other guy is cleared. Your bank account is padded.