Perhaps they see a trend of knee-jerk reactions to these kinds of cases where the defendant is presumed guilty before the entire story or evidence is out, or before any sort of due process occurs. I can see why someone would at least try, even weakly, to counteract this type of community pressure.

I realize this isn't a legal matter at this point but I'm speaking of the principle(s) on which those features are based.

It almost always seems to become a case of "you're either with us or you're against us," so let's try to steer clear of that.