Reply #53: Presumption of innocence is a legal term, not a social imperative. [View All]

[Lyric]

We are not a court of law. We don't have any authority over her Constitutional rights. Nobody here is required to "presume" that she's innocent--mostly because she's not fucking innocent. To believe that she's innocent would require that we believe that she let Dharun Ravi into her dorm room--TWICE--and let him have access to her computer--TWICE--without having any idea in the world what he was doing. Frankly, that's just ridiculous. She was Ravi's friend; she had access to his Twitter feed. In my view, she proved that she was NOT innocent when she let that asshole into her room a second time, knowing full well what he'd already done, so that he could try and do it AGAIN.

And I'll bet the farm that when she's finally convicted of whatever charge the prosecutors and her attorneys settle on, the judge is going to tell her exactly the same thing as the guilty verdict is handed down.