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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

They're better than systems that pre-suppose guilt and actually make you prove your innocence.

In those systems by the time you end up charged it's pretty much too late to do anything but get a softer sentence.

It's also worth noting that many of our justice system rights in the US have been severely eroded. Like the right to a jury trial, the prohibition on search and seizure without cause, the right to a lawyer, and the prohibition on cruel or unusual punishment. With all of that compromised the predisposition of innocence is itself severely compromised.

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