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RossA wrote:

Soccerdad1995 wrote: Separately, there is the process. I firmly believe in the legal concept of guilty until proven innocent, and the idea that our legal system should be set up with a bias toward letting the guilty go free rather than wrongly convicted the innocent. On that note, I do have a problem with several aspects of this trial.

Uuuhhh, I hope you meant that the other way around.

Yes I did. Innocent until / unless proven guilty.

Freudian slip since I was just typing and thinking about someone sexually assaulting my wife or daughters. It really is hard to not be swayed by emotional reactions to this stuff....

There are two distinct things going on with this case. First, the crimes themselves. Which are horrific. As a father of two daughters and a husband to an amazing woman, I am not sure exactly what I would want done to someone who committed these crimes to my loved ones, but I am sure that it would be very painful, and would result in their death. It would also clearly violate any and all prohibitions against "cruel and unusual punishment".

Separately, there is the process. I firmly believe in the legal concept of guilty until proven innocent, and the idea that our legal system should be set up with a bias toward letting the guilty go free rather than wrongly convicted the innocent. On that note, I do have a problem with several aspects of this trial.