Police are extremely closed mouth about criminals guilt. In fact, they are called alleged guilty parties or some other euphemism
Nonsense. You are mistaking police, who routinely issue press releases and hold news conferences about how they "busted the bad guys," with the press, which does indeed use the "alleged" euphemism ad nauseum in order to protect itself from civil libel suits if the guy gets acquitted. The police are bound by no such code though, and a prosecutor who made his case by repeatedly referring to the defendant's "alleged crime" would be laughed out of the courtroom. So would a cop witness.
Jefferson’s actions in this case were loathsome through and through and were an offense to the law. Perhaps you can educated me as to other president’s doing something similar?
Certainly. John Adams and the prosecution of the Philadelphia Aurora and other anti-federalist newspapers under the Sedition Act. Abraham Lincoln, who unlike Jefferson, actually suspended habeas corpus and used the suspension to target opposition northern politicians and newspapers well behind the war lines just as much as any southerner. Andrew Johnson, who enlisted the military to make swift execution of the accused Lincoln assassination conspirators including Surratt outside of the civilian court system, even though the evidence against her was questionable. Franklin Roosevelt, who personally ramrodded the Quirin saboteur conspirators into a military tribunal with hasty executions instead of a civilian courtroom and got the supreme court to rubber stamp it on highly dubious legal grounds. The list could go on a lot longer. And it includes many presidents we consider "great."
None of those compare. Adams tried to legally murder no one and pardoned people condemned to death.
Lincoln was facing REAL insurrection and war not fantasies.
Johnson was also dealing with REAL killers not pretenses.
Roosevelt was facing REAL war on a worldwide scale not hysterical crap.
None of this involved people the president KNEW were innocent.