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zog · 07-29-2008

I hope panama is innocent until proven guilty. If panamanians can all look alike to those of european extraction then I can imagine it would be the same for panamanians with europeans - yes, officer, he was tall, white, with blue eyes and fair hair :-D Would not be nice to be arrested because someone thought you were someone else.

But if it works out guilty until proven innocent, surely the prosecution would be relatively poor. And surely absence of evidence counts as evidence for the defense. Your fingerprints or DNA were not found at the crime scene must surely undermine a prosecution's case, and if not then guilty until proven innocent would be an absurd legal basis for the law.

07-29-2008	#10 (permalink)
zog Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: UK Posts: 78 Rep Power: 1	I hope panama is innocent until proven guilty. If panamanians can all look alike to those of european extraction then I can imagine it would be the same for panamanians with europeans - yes, officer, he was tall, white, with blue eyes and fair hair :-D Would not be nice to be arrested because someone thought you were someone else. But if it works out guilty until proven innocent, surely the prosecution would be relatively poor. And surely absence of evidence counts as evidence for the defense. Your fingerprints or DNA were not found at the crime scene must surely undermine a prosecution's case, and if not then guilty until proven innocent would be an absurd legal basis for the law.