The New American
In an indication of either her gross ignorance or her willingness to overthrow centuries of legal custom, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi responded to the news that a New York grand jury had indicted former President Donald Trump by saying that Trump would now be given a chance to âprove his innocenceâ in court.
Pelosi praised the grand juryâs indictment of Trump late last week, saying, âNo one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. Hopefully, the former president will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.â
Actually, in America and in each of the 50 states and the territories of the United States, the burden of proof lies with the government and its prosecutors, rather than the defendant. The prosecutor is obliged to present enough evidence before a trial jury to prove a person is guilty of the charged crime, beyond reasonable doubt. It takes all 12 members of that jury to convict the person of a crime. The legal system presumes the accused person is innocent. This is why juries return a verdict of either guilty or not guilty. A jury does not find an accused person âinnocent,â as that is presumed.
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If Pelosi gets her way she can make Trump take the stand, if he refuses or takes the Fifth she can comment on it in closing argument, but worse come to worse if presumption of innocence outlawed Trump gets both opening statement and closing argument. Take that brassy Nancy!