While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I want you to know that I am innocent - and that I will fight to clear my name.
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.
What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway.
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
Yeah, I've gotten a few letters from prison.
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.
I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.
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