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Would you be more for ”Innocent until proven guilty” if you found yourself arrested?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) July 23rd, 2011

Given the recent Casey Anthony case many were on the train of ”guilty UNTIL you prove you are innocent”. Imagine you were driving, breaking no laws and a prowl car gets on your tail and won’t let off. Then comes the bubble gum lights and the blip of the siren and you know you have been “fanged” but you do not know why. You pull over ready to get your information and stuff ready and ask the cop what you did, but he/she tells you to stay in the car, hands where ne/she can see them. Shortly 3 to 4 more prowl cars show up lights going and they get out guns at the ready. They order you out with hands locked behind your head. You are frisked, and told that you are arrested for robbery and assault. You are thinking “what the hell?” You find out that you match the description of an assailant that beat a jewelry merchant down and stole a case of very expensive jewelry. When you are questioned, you find the time the crime happened you were somewhere else, but you could not prove it; you have no alibi. You are all over the evening news as the main suspect in the so-and-so jewelry heist. If people interviewed by the news crew were saying things like you should rot in prison, or worse because the jewelry owner was well liked in the community, would you feel a little different about being seen as innocent until the State proves you are guilty? You know you didn’t do it, and you hope sooner than later they know you didn’t do it. How would about being assassinated by the press as the crook even before you had the trial? Being perceived as guilty every evening until the charges get dropped or you go to trial and get acquitted.

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