If these guys weren't guilty of anything, then they deserved the best show I could give them.
"If he was guilty of molestation, then probably we should consider stripping him of the honor," Newhan said in an interview Wednesday.
If Mr. Case was guilty of hubris, then the Time Warner management team was guilty of ignorance and credulity, according to industry analysts and academics.
If we respect the law that has found Evans guilty of rape, then shouldn't we also respect the legal process that imposes a prison sentence, after which the convicted person is free to return to society?
"There is a real sense that if he is guilty of something, then the whole system is guilty of something," said James D. Featherstonhaugh, a prominent lobbyist and lawyer in Albany, who once worked with Mr. Bruno on a land deal and is now among the potential witnesses in the case.
Clad in a black shirt and trousers and wearing sandals encrusted with the sandy dust of the cemetery, he added: "When Abdelbaset first got back he went to his mother and said, 'mother, if I am guilty of this, then you should not forgive me'.
The latest example came in the corruption trial of Calvin Boender, a politically connected real estate developer who on Thursday was found guilty of bribing then-Alderman Isaac Carothers (29th Ward) to back Mr. Boender's West Side land deal.
"If the Poles were so guilty of this crime, then why was the evidence not presented before?" he asked.
And if doing all of this makes us "guilty" of political correctness, then so be it.
If any freshwater species is guilty of tasting muddy, then it is the carp.
