alt Hacker NewsDid you read my comment? I said:
> even though the charge of hiring a contract killer to assassinate his business competition may have been dropped
Just because the charge was dropped doesn't mean he's innocent of it. In fact, reading the chat logs makes his guilt pretty clear. Of course, because the whole operation was a scam, there's little he could have been convicted of. Yet just because the murder was never carried out doesn't mean he didn't intend to have someone assassinated. In my book, paying someone money to kill another person is definitely grounds for imprisonment.
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The case for this was dropped because he was sentenced for it in the other case.
> Just because the charge was dropped doesn't mean he's innocent of it
That’s exactly what it means under the presumption of innocence.
Advocating for the continued imprisonment of someone for something they are legally considered innocent of, is quite literally vigilantism.
> Just because the charge was dropped doesn't mean he's innocent of it.
If you had a trial and they can't prove that, then yes it means you are innocent of this charge in the eyes of the law
So you think people should be sentenced based on charges that were not proven in court?