Quote Originally Posted by Flixy View Post
For what it's worth, I'm loosely involved in a court case, and the prosecutor starting the case (building up, not in court yet, but that's when they had a suspect and enough evidence to start the machinery up) 11 months ago and it's not even in court, yet. And the actual offense was two years ago.
Yup. Last court case I was involved in (on a misdemeanor, no less) took 10 months before it saw a courtroom... at which point the prosecutor quickly dropped the charges. And both the defendant and prosecution were angling to get things rolling quickly. Personally, I think the ridiculously long wait time for something to make its way through the bureaucracy is an indictment of the modern, Western court system, but it applies equally to nobodies and celebrities ensnared in its glacial grasp.

Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
I didn't know that the presumption of innocence had been suspended in the US? You know, where it used to say 'innocent untill proven guilty in a court of law?'.
Understandable... that's not something we like to advertise, and it's really something of an open secret. Being a foreigner and all, it's not surprising no one clued you in.