One of the persistently baffling elements of our criminal justice discourse is the large number of people, including public officials, who seem lightly committed to the presumption of innocence. Most ...

Steven Avery is shown in a booking photo from the Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer.” (Netflix/Handout via Reuters) Each week, In Theory takes on a big idea in the news and explores it ...

Re “Mueller: Trump not exonerated” (July 24): Our criminal justice system is based on the presumption of innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Prosecutors work to deliver that proof ...

"Innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." There is perhaps no presumption more familiar in the law than the presumption of innocence. Pennsylvania State Capitol. "Innocent until proven ...

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos believes that college students accused of sexual misconduct in Title IX cases are owed a presumption of innocence, or non-responsibility, in keeping with a bedrock ...

I want to praise Jeremy Piven. That’s a risky thing to do, I know. Piven is one of Those Men. One of those big entertainment figures who has fingers pointed at him. He has joined Harvey Weinstein, ...

“Innocent until proven guilty.” We have all said this many times. We have surely heard it many more. But what does it really mean? Has the concept been corrupted by modern day politics and the court ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About an hour after news broke Thursday that former President Donald Trump had been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, Yusef ...

“I believe it was unfair for a New Yorker to spend 24 hours in jail for an offense that he did not commit,” said Mayor Adams about Daniel Gill, the supermarket worker initially arrested on charges of ...

The idea that we’re all presumed innocent is foundational to our legal system. Mayor Lori Lightfoot recently turned this principle on its head by suggesting that when the Cook County’s state’s ...

The Ledger's July 5 headline “Mueller: No Exoneration” by the left-leaning Associated Press is a misleading lie. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, asked if Robert Mueller ...