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Nerdy Fish1/25/2010 7:12:19 am PST

re: #279 iceweasel

The system works (insofar as it does) only because we have the presumption of guilty until proven innocent. We have to accord the defendants every possible break. And we have to hold the prosecution, and law enforcement, to the highest possible standards.
Sometimes this does result in the clearly guilty going free, but we do that because the alternative— convicting the innocent — is too high a price to pay.

You got that backwards, ice. Innocent until proven guilty.