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Lindsay

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2. Yup. Until

Reply to riversedge (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 20, 2015, 05:07 PM

Jun 2015

he's been tried and found guilty, he's a suspect and the crimes are alleged. It's fairer to all suspects to use those forms, so we gotta put up with it even for those who've confessed.

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Why do news reports - at least at print - refer to the shooter as "suspect" [View all] question everything Jun 2015 OP

imho--he has to be legally convicted in a court of law. But I have riversedge Jun 2015 #1

Yup. Until Lindsay Jun 2015 #2

Thanks. I understand that but it grates me when I read... (nt) question everything Jun 2015 #4

He's presumed innocent (legally) until he is either tried The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2015 #3

Because he has not been convicted nadinbrzezinski Jul 2015 #5