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   From: drp@drproctor.com   
      
   On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 14:16:03 -0500, "GEM"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Wait. Let me guess. Its a play on words!!   
   >   
   >Nobody is EVER proven innocent in a court of law.   
      
   The presumption is of innocence.  So lacking a guilty verdict,  the   
   accused is "innocent" because this is their default status when they   
   first walk into the court room.   
      
   >The term "not guilty" does not mean "innocent", so, therefor, nobody has   
   >ever been "proven" innocent whether they were executed or not.   
      
   In addition to "guilty" and "innocent",  Scottish law allows a third   
   verdict,    "not proven".   
      
   Dr P   
      
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