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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I basically said that it is not okay, maybe you should have read the second sentence as well. But even with a "sentence of a couple years", guilt has to be profen, not innocence. If there is plausible doubt of guilt, there shouldn't be a guilty sentence.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, sorry it's just worded weirdly and I didn't get that you were referencing the reasonable doubt standard.