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It is a good system but it doesn't always work. Justice is not always served, in part because of protections afforded citizens stemming from the presumption of innocence. We should not give up that presumption, and as long as we do not, the price we pay is that the occasional guilty man goes free.
I'm not saying he shouldn't have been found guilty and punished, I'm saying it is more important that we have the protections we afford criminal defendants keep them from being railroaded (and even that happens, too!).
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