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Trials have to prove someone is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. If agents involved in the investigations were caught misbehaving, that may very well add doubt t
by pluma 12y ago
Trials have to prove someone is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. If agents involved in the investigations were caught misbehaving, that may very well add doubt to the validity of the investigation's results. Or at least it could delay the trial while the results are re-evaluated.
- emodendroket 12y agoWell, I took a high school civics class too, but I don't see these guys as having been central to the case against Ulbricht at all.
- pluma 12y agoI didn't (nor do I see what high school has to do with the most basic principle defining a state of law). And I didn't say they were central to the case, either. But depending on the lawyers and the judge, this could have been used to construct something that would have affected either the progress or the outcome of the trial. It's entirely philosophical anyway.
- emodendroket 12y ago> I didn't (nor do I see what high school has to do with the most basic principle defining a state of law). It was my way of trying to suggest that, like everyone with a modicum of education in the United States, I'm aware of the principle that accused persons are innocent until proven guilty in US law, and you didn't really need to point it out to me like it was something I hadn't thought of.