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“This brushing aside of the presumption of innocence is becoming commonplace…Defaming the dead is just plain cowardly.”

Something’s been bugging me for a while now. A bit like that piece of popcorn that gets stuck in your teeth during a movie that you can feel, but you can’t quite locate and remove. I’ve been wanting to write about it but hadn’t found quite the right jumping-off point.

Until recently.

The first popcorn kernel in my teeth is a concept fundamental to our legal system that is...