• Poob@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    You are still allowed to dislike innocent people. The law is not morality.

    • Syndic@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      You are still allowed to dislike innocent people.

      Just a small correction. Being not proven guilty doesn’t proves innocence. It just means that the accusation couldn’t be proven in court. That’s the price we pay for our justice system which tries to keep wrong convictions as small as possible, quite a few guilty people will walk free.

      And I think in this case a guilty person walks free.

    • Noughmad@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      He also wasn’t found “innocent”, but “not guilty”.

      There’s a vast difference between that. Not guilty means that we can’t prove he’s guilty beyond reasonable doubt, not that we can prove that he’s innocent.

      It’s still very likely he committed crimes, but we can’t be sure enough to send him to jail.