[dfwgator]

Since when have you heard at any trial, “we find the defendant, innocent?”

[Michael.SF.]

Since when have you heard at any trial, “we find the defendant, innocent?”

You took my statement at face value, note the scare quotes around 'innocent'. I was using the word in the context of a statement made earlier by a poster, one who claimed OJ was innocent BECAUSE he was acquitted.

I was simply refuting the misinformation that he was spouting.

[SoCal Pubbie]

The media was the term “innocent” to avoid any screw ups that might lead to having it heard as “guilty”. Imagine someone channel surfing and hitting a station right after the word “not” is spoken, and you hear “guilty of killing his ex wife and her friend.”