Why is a person innocent until proven guilty?

Question

when they make u bond out on your change

Answer 1

That came from Old English law when the king and his representatives could jail people without proof. So, now you are innocent until proven guilty. You can't prove a negative. You can prove or disprove a positive.

Bond is just insurance that you will show up for your court date. Usually the more severe the crime the higher the bail.

Answer 2

Just because you have to bond ouot does not make you guilty. Law enforcement personel are just as human as us and make mistakes and sometimes so do the courts. Once you go before a judge if you are found innocent then the case is dropped. Unfortunately it stills shows up as an arrest and unless someone does some more checking they do not know it was thrown out.Also the purpose of bond is to make sure you show up to court guilty or not. You will be there if you are going to lose money.

Answer 3

Remember, bonds are instituted only to insure that you'll reappear for court -- they're refundable if you do appear (minus any fee that a bail bondsman may charge). It's not a matter of proving you innocent or guilty, but a matter of making sure that you show up to make that determination.

Could you imagine what would happen if this were the case:
Okay, alleged drug dealer... you're facing a felony charge and 10 years imprisonment, but since you're innocent until proven guilty, and because we can't (or won't) keep you arrested until we make that determination, we'll just let you go... we'll see you in a month... don't leave the country!

(Of course, this DOES happen for some offenders and some crimes, they're called ROR releases, but for many offenders, this isn't gonna work! They're outa hear faster than a roadrunner on a desert highway...)

Answer 4

The bond is just a way of encouraging people to actually show up for their court dates. If people didn't have an incentive to show up for court, do you really think they'd show up? Also, I'd rather it be an innocent until proven guilty system than the other way around.

Answer 5

Innocent until proven guitly is the only way. Is it preferable to allow the guitly to absconed responsibility then to sentence the innoncent.

The bond/bail(in england) is a gamble that the person will return - a guilty person has nothing to run from.

Read philosophy to find yor own answer - I personally believe in innocence FIRST.

Answer 6

You are innocent until proven guilty by a trial. You legally don't have the right to not allow that trial. So you must be detained until the trail happens. That is also why you get the right to a speedy trial. But if you want to be free until the verdict, you must pay a refundable bond. That bond is used to pay for tracking you down should you not show up to trail.

Answer 7

the constitution says we are. if everyone was guilty till proven innocent no one would be bonded out. think about it. lots of people are assumed guilty because of circumstancial evidence which can,by the way, be very damning. we have a constitutional right to be innocent till proven guilty by a jury of our peers.

Answer 8

Well whats the alternative? guilty until proven innocent? then all you'd have to do is accuse someone and they'd be taken away (and every Duke Lacrosse player knows that could never happen)

Answer 9

Because they would rather risk letting a guilty man go then send an innocent man to prison.
Otherwise, it would be like everyone's automatically guilty, and no one gets a fair trial.

Answer 10

If you were automatically guilty, then why would you even bother to go to trial or make a plea? You'd go straight to prison. So, you have to be considered innocent. It is the burden of the state to prove your guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.