Letters,
Criminal
Aug. 24, 2018
Presumption of innocence... at trial
The principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty is commonly overstated.
In his Aug. 14 column, Bail Bill Revisions Bungle Reform," Chesa Boudin writes: "The right to bail -- or pretrial release on monetary or nonmonetary conditions -- has been enshrined in the California Constitution since its adoption in 1849. For good reason: A bedrock principle of our criminal justice system is that a person is innocent until proven guilty."
As it happens, this is a common overstatement of the principle that a person ...
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