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RZM

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2. Pretty much

Reply to peacebird (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 22, 2012, 10:18 PM

Mar 2012

Whenever people bring up an instance of an innocent person being convicted, I can't help remind them that such cases are probably far outnumbered by the guilty walking free. Probably by a factor of hundreds, if not even thousands.

But that's the way our system is set up. You're innocent until proven guilty and it's the state's job to prove you did wrong. And that's how it should be.

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Remember that line from 'Training Day?' . . . 'It's not what you know, it's what you can prove' [View all] RZM Mar 2012 OP

Years ago a lawyer i was friends with said that justice was not right or wrong, truth or innocence peacebird Mar 2012 #1

Pretty much RZM Mar 2012 #2

What I learned from this case justgamma Mar 2012 #3

I thought there were witnesses? n/t RZM Mar 2012 #4

Well, according to the police justgamma Mar 2012 #5

I don't think there were witnesses to the shooting, but there was the 911 call RZM Mar 2012 #6

But the witness's impression that Trayvon had the upper hand JDPriestly Mar 2012 #7