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Elisabeth Guigou, the justice minister of the day, managed to push through a law to strengthen the presumption of innocence.
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Dotti dismisses the former prime minister's reaction to the Milan verdict - which Mr Berlusconi described as "intolerable judicial harassment" - saying that his "ostentatious lack of respect for the law and the presumption of impunity" were "simply the result of the excessive power and wealth of the Cavaliere".
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We have drug laws whereby the force that is government tells us what we can and cannot put into our bodies, and as the very presumption by the government is the opposite of credible, few abide the written law.
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Mr. Barnett is professor of legal theory at Georgetown Law School and the author of "Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty" (Princeton University, 2005).
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McArdle had argued that old case law from the 1800s, with a presumption of owner negligence from a wandering horse or cow, had never been overruled though courts more recently had applied the other standard.
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Here, I think Mr. Horowitz again begins with a presumption that law of armed conflict awareness is not part of the military ethos because it is not comprehensively addressed in this ATTP.
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And the presumption that you need to know about something before you can be guilty of it is challenged in that law.
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Apparently the constitutional presumption of innocence applies to everybody but Roger, even after he proved his innocence in a court of law, the one place where there are rules against unfounded speculation and guilt by association.
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The contrast is that FAPTs do not require favorable choice-of-law rulings to function as intended, since a presumption behind those trusts is that the foreign jurisdiction where the trustee is based is not going to honor U.S. law or court rulings anyway.
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