I thought he had admitted to shooting Charlie Kirk. Can he really be presumed innocent in that case? Isn’t the trial just to decide the sentence?
> I thought he had admitted to shooting Charlie Kirk. <
He did, to his roommate. That’s evidence, but it’s not a formal guilty plea. So unless his lawyer gets him some sort of plea deal, there’ll have to be a trial.
I think some jurisdictions require a not guilty plea in a capital case.
He withdrew the confession. Probably at the behest of his lawyer. Pretty common in homicide cases.
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