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[Mistakebythelake90]

Innocent until proven guilty is a legal distinction. It only means that "in the eyes of the law" someone is innocent until proven guilty. The expression has little meaning beyond its legal one. Remember that the entire criminal legal system is weighted heavily against wrongful conviction - hence the saying that it is better that ten guilty men go free than for one innocent man to be convicted.

There are numerous examples of wrongly convicted as well as wrongly acquitted (OJ) much less wrongly accused (Duke LAX) or wrongly unindicted.

In the court of public opinion, everyone is entitled to form their own opinion based on whatever facts are available. Unfortunately, the facts are seldom presented in the press thoroughly and impartially. We generally get leaked information not necessarily in the sequence that would allow us to have any proper perspective. Mine is colored by having four daughters.

This case in no different than most of this type -it is impossible to know the whole truth.

What we do know is that something happened and that the suspect was not even questioned. Once again, the Florida justice system has embarrassed itself - not that it really cares.

There are wrongful accusations and guilty people who get away free, but the legal system gets it right a surprisingly high number of times. The court of opinion is just that - peoples opinion. A large majority of non-SU fans believe that Bernie Fine is a child molester, and that Syracuse covered it up. We as SU fans, followed the story very closely, and realize that at best it is much more unclear than that, and at worst flat out lies. Therefore, I won't judge Winston, because just like BF, he wasn't even charged.

Look, there is no doubt that the girls story could be true. It isn't hard to imagine a famous athlete getting away with a crime, nor is it hard to paint the florida police as protecting winston. But you can come up with a conspiracy theory for pretty much any incident. I choose instead to take things at face value, barring any sort of real evidence. At the end of the day, it is a case of he said/she said, and there wasn't enough evidence to prove her story. This doesn't mean that it didn't happen, but I won't suddenly jump on Winston because of it.

 

[CusefanATL]

I believe Winston is guilty, first the TPD and then Meggs covered for the criminal.

I feel that Meggs felt that Winston would never be convicted in the state of Florida.

The lead detective was begging his superiors to work for the Florida St. booster club twice over.

if meggs' reputation is correct... you have him pegged completely wrong.