More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
We all have the problem of what do you do with the not-guilty-yet in free and democratic societies where you have the presumption of innocence. It's a very difficult problem.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
You're guilty until proven innocent. Perception is reality, that's the way that it is in this world.
Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that's so deep in history that there's no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.