If you're innocent, wouldn't you want to prove your innocents right away?
If you're guilty, wouldn't you want to drag out the trial to stay free as long as you can?
What's tRump's doing?
If you're innocent, wouldn't you want to prove your innocents right away?
If you're guilty, wouldn't you want to drag out the trial to stay free as long as you can?
What's tRump's doing?
Originally posted by: Vegas Todd
If you're innocent, wouldn't you want to prove your innocents right away?
If you're guilty, wouldn't you want to drag out the trial to stay free as long as you can?
What's tRump's doing?
To be fair, an innocent defendant might want to extend the trial date as far in the future as possible--for instance, if exculpatory or exonerating evidence or testimony was available but not immediately so. A defendant free on bail also has no particular reason to resolve the trial quickly and may wish to delay proceedings if he thinks that regardless of actual guilt, he might be convicted and jailed. His counsel might also wish to have more time to prepare.
So delaying isn't any kind of admission of guilt, nor should it be inferred as such. We have to be fair about this, even if the other side shits on fairness. Especially if they do.
And, if you can afford the hefty legal fees, delaying or dragging out the proceedings isn't a big deal.