We have often read in the newspapers or news agency reports of cases that have been decided long after the actual crime act was committed - if ever it had been committed at all! In the eyes of justice, everybody is innocent unless proven otherwise.
There have been chilling reports of people sent to the gallows 20 years after the act of murder or any offence carrying the capital punishment tag was committed - again if at all it had ever been committed!
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