You are innocent until proven guilty. And I think Ernie deserves the same consideration regardless of whether he's a politician or a janitor in the street.

A man is innocent until proven guilty.

Most of the time, perhaps 99 percent of the time, the defendant is guilty; his screams are the final protest of a human being about to lost his most precious possession, his freedom.

deserves some consideration, and I think that should have been done right from the beginning.

I just don't know. Innocent until proven guilty is a critical presumption. But these are such serious charges.

I'm in the position of being declared guilty until I've proven myself innocent and having the opportunity of never responding to them.