Innocent until proved guilty

[James A. Landau]

I seem to recall that this saying was discussed on the ADS-L, but I cannot find it in the archives, so here goes:

Dickens _Great Expectations_ (published as a magazine serial starting in 1860) chapter 18:  "[Jaggers the lawyer says] Do you know, or do you not know, that the law of england supposes every man to be innocent, until he is proved---proved---to be guilty?"


   - Jim Landau


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