Chris Johnson <johnson (at) nmr.mgh.harvard (dot) edu [email concealed]> writes:

> The assumption of guilt before innocense is a part of French law and
> has been since Napoleonic times I believe.

Er... hello? France, the country of the Declaration of the Rights of
Man and of the Citizen?

You're wrong, presumption of innocence is the rule in all democracies,
and in particular in France. Get your facts straight before posting
that kind of misinformation to a public mailing-list.

Reading for the week-end:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Rights_of_Man_and_of_the
_Citizen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

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