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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (17175)	12/4/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Has anybody ever been declared "innocent" even though it was plainly obvious that they were?

To: one_less who wrote (17175)	12/4/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: RJC2006	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 67261

<<<People "get off" all the time merely because the prosecution could not produce the right evidence. That doesn't make them innocent. It only means there was not enough evidence in court to prove guilt. We can not even "prove" they are not guilty. We can only establish enough convincing proof of guilt to convict them, or not.>>> Before you claim that others are uninformed you might try hitting the law books yourself. Anything other than a verdict concerning one's guilt or INNOCENCE is strictly opinion and is completely irrelevant. A jury of one's peers means exactly that. If 12 people think you are "not guilty" than they are in effect proclaiming your innocence. To say that "not guilty" means that there wasn't enough evidence or it "wasn't the right kind" and does not stand as a proclamation of one's innocence is ridiculous given that there is almost always a sufficient period of discovery involved in which a prosecutor has an ample amount of time to gather such proof of guilt. The wording has always been "innocent until proven guilty" not "not guilty until proven guilty." You may not like the fact that a courtroom stands for the decision of "innocence" and "guilt" but that's the way it is.