Anyone messed up enough to do it isn't fit to hold a public office, and isn't fit to serve citizens, and cannot be trusted to be unbiased and objective in matters of leadership and government.
On the other hand, were you absent they day they taught about "presumption of innoncence?"
Presumed innocent...until you sign a guilty plea right under the lines that point out that it's illegal to plead guilty when one believes the contrary.
If I were a public figure and knowing how Republicans are treated by the media I wouldn't plead guilty to any charge. I would say "Hell no, I want a trial." My innocence, and my good name, would demand that I fight it.