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Your car being somewhere at a particular time is nothing more than an investigative hint. It proves neither guilt nor innocence.



You are presumed innocent. That doesn't have to be proven. If your car is somewhere else, that could create a reasonable doubt.


You are presumed innocent. That doesn't have to be proven.

In the purely theoretical sense, sure. In actual court, however, the whole purpose of alibis is to prove innocence, which is exactly the context that we are discussion. If you want to simply wax about the presumption of innocence, then the defendant need not provide any contrary evidence, as they have nothing to prove.




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