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- From: exusag@exu.ericsson.se (Serena Gilbert,cs,x0364)
- Subject: Re: Why *don't* we tell? (was Home alone,
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.173137.751@exu.ericsson.se>
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- Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.
- References: <1993Jan21.162154.6664@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:31:37 GMT
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- In article 6664@cbnews.cb.att.com, lib@cbnews.cb.att.com (Lib) writes:
- > 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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- From personal experience I would have to agree. In the United States you are
- guilty until proven innocent (especially in small Texas towns).
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