The phrase "assumed guilty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal or moral contexts to describe a situation where someone is considered guilty without sufficient evidence or due process.
Example: "In some societies, individuals are often assumed guilty until they can prove their innocence, which undermines the principle of justice."
Alternatives: "presumed guilty" or "deemed guilty".
And in a surveillance state, everybody is assumed guilty.
Every prisoner was assumed guilty, Duch explained, effectively "already dead".
But on the watch list, you may be assumed guilty, even after the court dismisses your case".
"Ever since Watergate, Presidents have been assumed guilty until proven innocent," the Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said.
And considering its highly fallible record on matters of race, science should be assumed guilty until proved innocent.
Boris Johnson reckons the best way to thwart potential jihadists is for suspected terrorists to be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
"No matter what anybody says, there's going to be people who automatically assume guilty until proven innocent, which is sort of a tough pill to swallow," Fowler said.
When it comes to anything remotely connected with the Catholic Church or any other agency that upholds traditional Judeo-Christian values, The Times seems to follow a most un-American impulse of assuming "guilty until proven innocent," rather than the other way around.
But Bailey-Woodward from JSP Law, who is representing a woman accused of shoplifting, is forced to wait several hours for her papers to arrive, only to discover she is not, as assumed, pleading guilty, but entering a not guilty plea.
"I will be certainly gagged during trial and you will carry on your so-called justice". One week later, after Judge Brinkema informed him that he could not, as he had assumed, plead guilty to the conspiracy charges and then argue in the penalty phase of the trial that he had had nothing to do with the September 11th attacks, Moussaoui changed his mind.
One week later, after Judge Brinkema informed him that he could not, as he had assumed, plead guilty to the conspiracy charges and then argue in the penalty phase of the trial that he had had nothing to do with the September 11th attacks, Moussaoui changed his mind.
