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Summary Of: Presumption of innocence

The presumption of innocence is in fact a legal instrument created by the law to favor the accused based... presumption of innocence is widely held to follow from the... Guaranteeing the presumption of innocence extends beyond the judicial system... misunderstanding which leads to the assumption that the presumption of innocence is not applied in... the presumption of innocence is evidence in favor of the accused... the miscarriages of justice that occur when the presumption of innocence is not respected...

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