alt Hacker NewsThe attempted murder charge was dropped.
Under our system that means he should be considered innocent of it.
This conversation is messy mostly because people are refusing to do that, which is akin to vigilantism.
A good faith discussion should only involve the charge he was convicted of and pardoned for, which is the narcotics charge.
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He should be considered innocent by the courts - and he was (innocent of the murder for hire charges, I mean). In the public we aren't obligated to follow the same standards of evidence as the courts. I think he almost certainly did pay to have those people killed, and that can shape my opinion of him.
> Under our system that means he should be considered innocent of it.
Nope. This doesn't mean anything, and the charges can be picked up again.
Oh wait, no. He was pardoned completely.
The prosecution dropped the charges. That does not make anyone innocent.