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presumption of guilt
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Def: a person is presumed to be guilty until he is proven innocent beyond a reasonable doubt
Example: Too many people in America are burdened with a presumption of guilt: their race, their ethnicity, their religion, their nationality and sometimes their poverty is seen as an indicia of danger, a basis for distrust or suspicion.
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