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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
No. This mini-debate started because I objected to this statement:
This type of thinking is not rare. I see it on Facebook. I see it in the comments section of USA Today and the front page of CNN and in other forums.
Everyone is guilty before proven innocent. I've seen people state that illegal immigrants should be executed. That's right, executed.
This mantra has gotten out of hand in this country and it sickens me.
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But flight
can be introduced as evidence of guilt. The law does adopt the idea that 'innocent people don't act this way' and have essentially codified it into the rules of evidence.
And yes, the justice system only works if people use their brains and adopt an acceptable definition of 'reasonable' doubt. Oftentimes that
does require the use of inference and supposition.
If a prosecutor stood before and presented compelling evidence of what ABC News and others have reported, surely you'd be willing to convict on Obstruction and potentially as an accessory (after the fact, if nothing else). And no, we haven't had a prosecutor do such a thing, but I feel like there are enough independent sources leaking this information that we can certainly start to speculate on what it means.
If someone put a gun to my head right now and said "if you're wrong, you die", I'd say that Aaron Hernandez is absolutely an accomplice to murder and guilty of obstruction of justice. The End.
I don't see anything wrong with making those statements on a chat board, Twitter or facebook.