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From: Dave Lawrence
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,comp.misc
Subject: Re: A survey: forwarded by request
Summary: Our Grande Legal System
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Date: 19 Nov 88 19:42:30 GMT
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rbmckinn@cc.utah.edu wrote (and spaf forwarded |:-)
>                                      We do believe in the
>    principle of "innocent until proven guilty", and we regret
>    having implicated him in the careless wording of our survey.

Personally, I have always believed in the principles of "innocent
-unless- proven guilty."  I greatly dislike the implication of
the more common wording which suggests that the accused person
will eventually be proven guilty.

Dave
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