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- From: lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib)
- Subject: Re: Why *don't* we tell? (was Home alone, not a good story)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:21:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.162154.6664@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1993Jan20.164812.12248@afterlife.ncsc.mil> adculha@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Andrew Culhane) writes:
- >In article <1jh6q7INN9qq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cn262@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Cindy Carpenter) writes:
- >>
- >> ... and people who claim that
- >>they have been harrassed must be assumed to be telling the truth first,
- >>then have their claims investigated, rather than assumed to be lying first.
- >
- >No, absolutely not! It is fundamental to our legal system, and an absolute
- >requirement to avoid witch hunts, that the accused be presumed innocent
- >until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. By way of example, there
-
- Accused persons are not presumed innocent until proven guilty. That only
- happens when they are tried. People are routinely jailed, have their assets
- frozen, required to pay legal fees, etc. long before they come to trial.
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