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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 840716, member: 2265"]
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.
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