Maybe he said that -- but I can think of one whole class of laws that are considered legitimate and lend themselves to assuming guilt: drug laws. It is thanks to them that the police can assume any large amount of cash on your person is/was meant for a drug transaction, take it, and make you have to prove that it was not.
Think O. J.
O.J. was acquitted because the prosecution sucked. Also, one Freeper mentioned that it looked like OJ was taking the fall for his son, based on the
Drugs laws are stupid, stupidly enforced, and not appropriate in a free country. Agreed. OJ was guilty as hell and freed by a nitwit jury.
Robert Bork wasn’t always right about everything, but from what I’ve seen of juries and courts-martial, I think he was on to something. I know one court-martial was rigged to let off an NCO in my unit who slapped some kid who was AWOL (basically the prosecution witnesses’ jeep “broke down” and the defendant was let off), but in the scheme of things justice was served: a good NCO got his ass pulled through a ringer for a stupid act, but he didn’t lose his pension or go to jail.