Yes, we all know that that is true in court. But we aren't in court. Were you going around saying that of the 9/11 terrorists or the D.C. sniper? Because they also must be proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Well, there wasn't anything left of the 9/11 terrorists, and they caught the D.C. sniper with the gun in his trunk, so I think that the initital perception of the case was much more realistically that of being beyond reasonable doubt than what we've seen so far with the Kobe Bryant case.