While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.
Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
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.
Now, look, I - I like to look at evidence. I plead to that. I think evidence is important when you're making decisions that affect other people's lives.
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.