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If i believed for one second that he committed rape there is no way i would defend him. This was an attempt to frame him due to his political journalism. To infer otherwise is to be malicious or incredibly naive. The people out to get him have a war machine behind them that has millions of deaths on their hands and somehow we're supposed to believe he would be treated fairly. If you believe that I've got a rich deceased uncle in Nigeria who wants to send you a few million.

Let's please not re-ignite this particular flamewar here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

So innocent until proven guilty isn't a thing anymore?

The reasonable usage of that has always included "in the eyes of the law".

For example, if someone stabs you, there's no need to wait for a conviction to be upset about it. Some people may choose to get upset about things where they have less direct evidence but still believe they have sufficient evidence to come to a conclusion.

Alleged.