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Originally Posted by aka123
For starters publishing mug shot and name, even before preliminary hearing. For pros: term "suspected" was used. US legal system and press culture seems to have hard times understanding that people are not quilty until and if they have been judged so by court.
The practice in US makes it a lot harder to continue your life if you are judged as not quilty. And the assumption can't be that you are quilty, as that is not the starting point in working legal systems, no matter how obvious someone's quiltiness might seem or be.
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But that's more of an issue with the media, not the legal system. Unfortunately, we have become an indignation and outrage for entertainment society, and there is no shortage of media to provide us with our daily fix.