My guess is that the town of Salemi is resting easy with the presumption that the Italian legal system would be far less welcoming than the American courts to any such litigation.
Again and again, our loathings are subtended by an easy and unexamined presumption: that hating one class of women is not just okay, but somehow enlightened, a shorthand for being progressive and politically engaged.
And all the familiar inflators of bubbles came along: cheap, easy, and imprudent debt; the presumption that medallion prices could never go down (because, well, they had almost never gone down); and the cartoonish greed of a few participants.
But rebutting the presumption was pretty easy.
To start a trial with some probability of guilt is to have the fact-finder harbouring some initial belief that the accused is guilty and this is not easy to reconcile with the presumption of innocence.
However, the recognition of the asparagus odor in urine is not an all-or-nothing phenomenon; some people produce an asparagus odor that is easy to detect, and the presumption is that some people produce more odorant.
Such a presumption makes it easier for lead-poisoned plaintiffs to prevail in cases against owners even if the poisoning possibly occurred elsewhere.
The informational underpinnings of democracy have eroded, and no one has explained precisely how". What's easy to see, though, despite a presumption of good intentions, is how the social media Godzilla continues to trample citizens and level cities unawares.
So this is more on the side of the police and the intelligence services — how can you help the intelligence services and the police to buy or develop ICT that has certain constrains which makes it compliant with the presumption of innocence which is not easy at all because we probably have to reconfigure what is the presumption of innocence".
