[Poshua]

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Ian and everyone else charged is innocent until proven guilty

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I hate this expression.

It means, "We can't throw him in jail until we prove his guilt."

Everyone uses it to mean, "We have to treat him as if he didn't do anything until the court says otherwise."

Of course, we don't treat him that way at all--we put him in handcuffs and take him to jail and make him attend a trial. If he was truly "innocent until proven guilty", he should ask the judge why an innocent man was arrested.

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This is why the phrase is actually "presumed innocent until proven guilty." It is not meant to be an assertion of actual innocence of the indicted.