Sentence examples for was assumed guilty from inspiring English sources

Every prisoner was assumed guilty, Duch explained, effectively "already dead".

Those shadows are compounded by a police investigation that lasted for the next 15 years, and, we now know, by its terrible consequences: Colin Stagg spent only a year on remand, but for the next decade was assumed guilty, harassed, denied work, received death threats.

"Ever since Watergate, Presidents have been assumed guilty until proven innocent," the Presidential historian Michael Beschloss said.

But on the watch list, you may be assumed guilty, even after the court dismisses your case".

Boris Johnson reckons the best way to thwart potential jihadists is for suspected terrorists to be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

And considering its highly fallible record on matters of race, science should be assumed guilty until proved innocent.

You are not innocent till proven guilty; if the police have a print, you are assumed to be guilty.

Although "innocent until proven guilty" is a basic presumption of American law, noted the article in the Beijing Youth Daily, "the applicant is assumed to be guilty of harboring a secret wish to stay in America".

White people are often assumed to be innocent, while black people are assumed to be guilty.

Swiss-Americans are doubly punished because they are assumed to be "guilty".

"If there's a significant taxable income for that year, and they got a benefit, then they're assumed to be guilty until proved innocent," Wilkie said.