Innocent until proven guilty

United States
July 17, 2010 5:21pm CST
What if you are not guilty but you are not proven innocent of a crime, let's say you are accused of murder you did not do and you don't have any evidence to prove you are not the murderer? What would you do? Pray to god? Plan to escape prison? We only have a very short time to live do you want to spend it in prison?
5 responses
@arahvma23 (269)
• Philippines
20 Jul 10
This is a very difficult dilemma to decide upon. I don't really know how to act with that kind of situation. But maybe, though I don't want to spend my life in a prison, I think if you are the one trapped in this situation, you don't really have a choice. It is the constitution that decides whether you're going to be freed or you're going to spend your life in prison. If you will try to escape, you are risking your life therefore making it shorter. Maybe the only thing that you could do aside from making your time productive while inside the prison by joining activities, pray hard to God that you will be able to surpass the trials that you will face.
@dogsnme (1264)
• United States
17 Jul 10
That's why they say "innocent until PROVEN guilty." Whether or not there is evidence to prove you are innocent is not what matters. They have to get evidence that proves you are guilty beyond a doubt. If I am innocent of some crime then I'm not gonna worry about it unless I know the prosecutors are corrupt and are trying to frame me. Otherwise, there is no case. The system was set up to prove guilt not innocence. That's why on rare occasions people who have committed a crime get set free because the prosecution doesn't have sufficient evidence to prove them guilty.
@stealthy (8181)
• United States
17 Jul 10
In the U.S. it is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty and so you should not have to prove you are innocent. Some other countries have the opposite system and it is guilty until proven innocent. I think I read that that is the case in Italy and that it was how the American college girl living there got convicted of murder and is now in jail.
• Canada
17 Jul 10
I guess that's why they came up with that system.. The thing is nobody has to prove you're innocent, and you don't have to have any evidence that proves your innocent. Someone has to have real evidence that you're guilty. If you aren't guilty they probably won't have proof unless you were framed. If I was sent to jail for something I didn't do I'd flip, but I guess I'd just keep trying to appeal until they let me out.
• United States
17 Jul 10
I wouldn't give up fighting the case. I would contact my lawyer or have somebody on the outside getting a better lawyer so I could get a better lawyer. It would be the only way to get outta there without getting in more trouble.