But you don't have to keep going for drinks with a person who's just been arrested and let out on bail, you can make up your own opinion as you feel. You can say bad things about him before the judge does, you can deny them business opportunities, your kids don't have to play with his kids.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Regardless of whether you "were not directly harmed" I don't see why someone should or shouldn't “say bad things about them."
Why shouldn't I express my opinion? Or are we in "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" territory?
I may be misunderstanding your point. If so, please do correct me. If not, I don't see why I (or anyone else) shouldn't express their opinion WRT anything.
What value that opinion may have can certainly be debated, but why should someone not express their opinion?
You can obviously do that, but it makes little sense to do so when the system has been built around not taking what the prosecution says at face value or as a source of truth. The job of the prosecution is not to show the facts, it's to prosecute. Yes you don't have to go by the standards of the judicial system & presume innocence here, but why then use the prosecution's case when it only makes sense in the context of how our judicial system works?
I haven't mentioned either the prosecution or the defense.
The defense makes noises too, and you are welcome to make your own mix of whatever you like.
But to repeat the point, you are under no obligation, it is the official system that is.
Yup, I don’t understand how people is not used yet to public trials at social networks
If someone is on video shooting someone, it is a bit silly to say "Why are you editorializing their presumed guilt in this matter."
He's not someone I'd hire for anything, he's not someone I'd want my friends and family around. He's not someone I'd want attending any protest I was attending. He's not a good person, and he's a clear and present danger to society. These are the decisions that I, as an individual, am free to make because I'm not the government, and I don't have to abide by "innocent until proven guilty" for how I personally judge people.
I've been indicted twice and both times the grand jury transcripts were just lies.
In fact, I got someone released after 16 months in jail on a burglary charge because their grand jury was lies. The story the cop told was a complete fabrication.
You'd hope that before someone is arrested, the prosecutor has ample evidence to prove guilt.
I don't understand your point.
These individuals have not been proven guilty yet. Why are you editorializing their presumed guilt in this matter.
Note: I have no affiliation with these individuals nor case.