“do you assume that the accused is guilty, or innocent?”
I do not assume anything. If due process is followed (and they are followed in this country) and you are found guilty, you are guilty. After 20 years of exhaustive appeal process and you are still executed, then the due process was more than exhausted.
I do not assume anything.
Of course you must assume one or the other in a justice-system. Is it the defendant that must prove that he is innocent, or the prosecutor that must prove that he is guilty. It must be one or the other.
If due process is followed (and they are followed in this country) and you are found guilty, you are guilty.
We are talking about due process itself; you can't say I'd follow due process
when we're talking about the nature of what due process is.
After 20 years of exhaustive appeal process and you are still executed, then the due process was more than exhausted.
I never said anything about appeal, I was talking about the actual assumptions that our system of jurisprudence is built upon.