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1. Thank you as I understand it, calling those shot victims implies guilt. They can say alleged victims

Sat Oct 30, 2021, 12:22 PM

Oct 2021

I also understand it isn’t an uncommon request

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But he allows them to be called looters... lame54 Oct 2021 #2

Not unless the evidence shows them to be... PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #6

Evidence is to be interpreted by the jury... lame54 Oct 2021 #8

It's nuts if you can call someone a looter who isn't convicted of it gulliver Oct 2021 #9

They are not on trial, and therefore don't have the marybourg Oct 2021 #11

I thought we ALL had the presumption of innocence lame54 Oct 2021 #14

"Presumption of innocence" is an assignment of legal burden Effete Snob Oct 2021 #16

And so if they're indicted and tried I assume Igel Oct 2021 #21

The judge has actually done it in thousands of cases. PoliticAverse Oct 2021 #3

Not Quite Me. Oct 2021 #5

Can't call them victims? Call them 'prey'. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #12

Here's the same question I asked before: panader0 Oct 2021 #13

Prejudicial to whom? Effete Snob Oct 2021 #17

The "presumption of innocence" is intended to BE a bias Effete Snob Oct 2021 #19

It's not that they CAN be called rioters and looters... brooklynite Oct 2021 #20