Sentence examples for considered guilty until from inspiring English sources
In Italy, no one is considered guilty until a definitive conviction in this court.
He says power lines, electric blankets and video display terminals should be considered guilty until proven innocent.
As a result, people detained on immigration charges were considered guilty until proved innocent and were often held for months after they were ordered released.
But the culture that it represented, with all prisoners considered guilty until proven innocent, with dubious interrogation methods widely considered to be condoned, could well have had an influence on the attitudes and behaviour of lower ranks.
In 2015, I covered a trial where a white public defender stood in front of a jury pool and said that her own black client had to be considered guilty until proven otherwise.
It is absolutely untrue that in France an accused person is considered guilty until proved innocent; it only seems that way, because in French law there is no such thing as a plea of "not guilty".
"Basically, until proven innocent all animals are considered guilty".
It was a time when congressional committees considered people guilty until they could prove their innocence.
Mr. Romero tries to avoid the abstract when he talks about the importance of safeguarding civil liberties: "I just say that most Americans would think it's wrong to hold people without charging them with a crime, and without letting them see a lawyer, and to consider them guilty until they're proven innocent".
But we prize strong, effective government, consider nationalism guilty until proven innocent, and say that if the present coalition is to get another chance, we hope it is much less conservative, and much more liberal".
The practice of considering taxpayers' guilty until they proved their innocence would be modified by the bill to shift the burden of proof in civil tax-court cases from the taxpayers to the agency in cases in which the taxpayer cooperated in providing documents and other evidence.
