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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by syshum on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:35PM (#14933920)
I am sure people like Richard Jewell would share belief that "as a bystander believe an innocent person is guilty, it's not as big a deal."

Innocent people have their lives for ever ruined with nothing more than false accusations, and not being found not guilty at trial does not change that.

Further I would like to see where you get your belief that police are correct 75% or more of the time.

It seems to me you have a very favorable opinion of the American legal System, this tells me you have very very limited first hand experience with it and like view of from rose colored world view never having known anyone personally that has been ground down to nothing by this system that is IMO largely unethical

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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by comex on Saturday August 05, 2017 @12:31AM (#14934238)
Richard Jewell was not indicted for anything.
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Re:Arrest of WannaCry researcher sends chill through securit... by syshum on Saturday August 05, 2017 @06:38AM (#14935105)
No he was tried by the public, something you seem to support based on your comments or atleast do not see as a "big deal" if people assume a person is guilty based on the FBI belief they may have done something wrong

it was the FBI that pointed the Media to him as a suspect.

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