(April 21, 2016 at 5:03 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Not sure if it's controversial or not, but I don't think that the justice system (from the police all the way to the courts) should publish identifying information about people on trial until they have been convicted.
By "publish", I mean let the general public know, and effectively make it an jailable offence for anyone who does (e.g. journalists).
It's controversial because freedom of the press, etc. However I think that too many innocent people get their lives ruined by media-supported witchhunts, especially when they are wrongly linked to really serious crimes (murder, rape, etc).
Too right. I've hear it said - not completely cynically - that a man is innocent until his name appears in the press along with the phrase '...is alleged to have...'.
Boru
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