"What is truth?" said Pontius Pilate, trying to befuddle the issues of innocence and guilt with high-sounding Putin-like misdirection.
But a more satisfying way to read this mystery is to take it for what it really is — a thoughtful character study of a good man deeply troubled by issues of innocence and guilt.
The filing appears to be the first in which prosecutors have sought to use his detention statements in an effort to impeach his credibility on the issue of his innocence, in this case at sentencing.
(Mr. Goldsmith convinced a judge that the offense did not occur. The judge then issued a finding of innocence on Jan . 4and ordered the arrest record sealed).
The words of an appellate judge, penned a decade before Mr. Morrison's trial, provide insight into the question before us today: When death prevents the accused from appealing his judgment, the conviction is "a nullity" and "[j]urisdiction to determine the issue of guilt or innocence is now assumed by the ultimate arbiter of human affairs".
It seems to mean that a significant number of those Justices believed -- perhaps the Court's current composition does too -- that as long as the evidence is sufficiently reliable scientifically, we shouldn't worry that the jury will be too influenced by a testifying "scientist," even if that testimony goes to the ultimate issue of guilt or innocence.
"Our role is to analyze the data and give it to the triers of the facts, who have to evaluate it or issue the ultimate decision of innocence or guilt.
In addition to issues related to presumption of innocence, this raises many questions about privacy.
At issue then, and now, is not so much the issue of Mr Zuma's innocence or guilt.
I think the issue of his guilt or innocence, sure, it plagued Robert as the trial went on, but I think at first, it wasn't even something he was that concerned about, as much as just wanting to save O.J.'s life and make sure he was okay.
