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To: IronJack

You’re forgetting the incident at the airport for which he was originally charged. Do you believe the police were politically motivated and that it was a setup? Can you prove it?


56 posted on 12/02/2007 10:05:30 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
Do you believe the police were politically motivated and that it was a setup? Can you prove it?

I don't believe it was politically motivated. I do believe it was a setup. I don't believe he committed any crime, at least none worthy of being called one. I can't prove any of those things.

But in the canon of western jurisprudence, I don't have to. The burden of proof is not on the party establishing innocence, but on the party trying to establish guilt. Craig does not need to prove he was not soliciting sex; the state has to prove that he WAS.

You may have heard the principle stated another way: "innocent until proven guilty." It is NOT "guilty unless proven innocent."

59 posted on 12/02/2007 10:36:25 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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