Re: Jacko and Kobe: A tale of two cases

"Rich Soyack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "Michael Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > s_knight8 wrote:
> > >
>  http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion/article/0,1299,DRMN_38_2451918,00.html
> > >
>  [...]
> > > If the charges are true, Jackson seems to be a victim of a selfish
> > > kind of love and should have long ago realized that he needed to look
> > > in the mirror and make a change. Jackson claims he would never do
> > > anything to hurt a child. So why did he just collaborate with
> > > criminally accused and allegedly videotaped pedophile R. Kelly on a
> > > new song for his greatest hits album?
> >
> > Another american who does not undrerstand the difference
> > between accused and convicted...
> >
> 
> See, that's the thing about our wonderful country.  The Government has to
> treat the accused as innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt
> but the people can make up their own minds.
> 
> Rich Soyack

Excellent point.  I'd like to add that the accused is not "innocent
until proven guilty" but merely "PRESUMED innocent until proven
guilty."

Mez