Nothing makes me madder than that assumption that WE must regard her as innocent before the jury decides.
But it’s another one of those ideas that work their way into the culture- a legend with no basis in fact.
Well, it is an Obamanation now...
Well it’s pure ignorance more than anything. I’ve been a lawyer for 27 yrs so I don’t recall having that misapprehension. I disabuse people of the notion whenever I see it. My kids aren’t laboring under it, that’s for sure.
It is right up there with the thinking that freedom of speech means ordinary folks can’t choose to boycott artists and others that they don’t agree with.