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IUPG
(redirected from Innocent until proven guilty)

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IUPGInnocent Until Proven Guilty


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He offends the moral principle found in American jurisprudence of "suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
We live in a society where you are innocent until proven guilty," says Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Jersey.
White settlers and juries had been conditions to believe, through popular culture, word of mouth, and sensationalized newspaper headlines, that Apaches were the most dangerous and bloodthirsty of Native Americans; and so any Apache accused of killing a white person was likely to be treated as a blood enemy to be destroyed in the all-white courts, rather than innocent until proven guilty.
 
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