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“The principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary,” wrote Justice Edward White in Coffin v United States, tracing it from Deuteronomy through Roman Law, Canon Law, and the Common Law and illustrating it with an anecdote about a fourth-century provincial governor on trial before the Roman Emperor”

Mollie Hemingway, Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court
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Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway
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