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"Innocent until proven guilty in a court of law."

Unless you are murdered by the police for pulling up your pants.

Unless you are murdered by the police "restraining" you.

Unless you are murdered by the police in your cell.

Unless you are mentally incompetent and are tricked into signing a confession.

Unless you are mentally competent and are persuaded by the evidence (not of the crime, but the evidence that the system is corrupt) that you should plead to a lesser crime.

You have to make it to the court before that little sound-bite of freedom kicks in.




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