No, Danforth absolutely has a bias, and it causes him to treat others unfairly. When John Proctor brings Mary Warren to the court to confess that she and the other girls have been lying all along, Danforth asks him, "Do you know, Mr. Proctor, that the entire contention of the state in these trials is that the voice of Heaven is speaking through the children?" Evidently, Danforth has already decided that the girls are speaking truthfully, that they are God's mouthpiece in fact, and so anyone they accuse must automatically be guilty. This is precisely the kind of bias that prevents people from receiving fair trials and assigns a ridiculous amount of power to the undeserving.
Moreover, when Mr. Hale begs Danforth to allow Francis Nurse and Proctor to leave and come back with a lawyer to help them present their evidence, Danforth refuses this request, asserting that lawyers are neither necessary, nor would they even be helpful in these trials. Because no witnesses can be called to testify to the innocence of the accused (since witchcraft is an invisible crime), this court can only rely on the testimony of the accusers. Then, he says, "As for the witches, none will deny that we are most eager for all their confessions." He calls the accused "witches" before they have even had a trial! Danforth assumes the accused are guilty, and this bias makes him all the more dangerous for them.
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