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snowybirdie

(6,748 posts) Fri Sep 12, 2025, 10:23 AM Sep 2025

Anyone ever heard

About a defendants rights of innocent til proven guilty? They're practically building the gallows now!

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Anyone ever heard (Original Post) snowybirdie Sep 2025 OP

Innocent until proven guilty is a quaint old fashioned concept. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #1

I remember when they panicked because Nixon said Manson was guilty. Iggo Sep 2025 #2

Irish_Dem

(82,336 posts)

1. Innocent until proven guilty is a quaint old fashioned concept.

Reply to snowybirdie (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 10:26 AM

Sep 2025

Completely outdated and no longer practiced.

Unless of course you are a part of the rich white male power elite.
Then you are always innocent, even when proven guilty.

Iggo

(50,056 posts)

2. I remember when they panicked because Nixon said Manson was guilty.

Reply to snowybirdie (Original post)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:26 AM

Sep 2025

Kind of mattered then

Doesn’t matter now.

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