“innocent until proven guilty”: the presumption of innocence [Note: Content Warning for links - reader discretion is advised]

I refer to this quite often in my weekly news posts, so I will create this post to link to help support the importance of this. 

I've provided some links below: note that they are to court cases and legal commentary, and include distressing content such as deception, abuse, violence, and misuse of power, etc: 

• ““She Said” IS Evidence”   https://youtu.be/KvanHITPNEc   “The Platner and Swalwell allegations exposed a huge myth in our discourse - that testimony “isn't evidence.””    

• “how _’s lies about grooming and abuse unravelled”; 

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - “Great Purge”/“Purge Trial”,   “The Show Trials in the USSR” (The History Learning Site),   Wikipedia - “Show Trial”; 

• Australian Attorney-General's Department on the Presumption of Innocence (accessed January, 2023); 

• Innocent Until Proven Guilty – A Basic Guide to Criminal Law (Sydney Criminal Lawyers; accessed January, 2023); 

• Innocent Until Proven Guilty: The History and Current Application of the Presumption of Innocence - Pumphrey Law (USA, accessed January, 2023); 

• Innocent Until Proven Guilty: The Origins of a Legal Maxim (Legal History Sources; accessed January, 2023); 

• Wikipedia: The Presumption of Innocence (accessed January, 2023); 

• “presumption of innocence doesn’t mean a suspect is innocent, leading Sydney barrister warns”; and

• Chapters One and Three of Geoffrey  Robertson's “Crimes Against Humanity” (Penguin Books, 4th Ed. 2012, ISBN 978-0-14-190080-3; 1st Ed. orig. pub. Allen Lane, 1999) (Amazon).
  

I may add to this over time.