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by luckylion 2602 days ago
> That seems very wrong to me, the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" should extend to sentencing

That's quite impossible, isn't it? Motives regularly play a role in sentencing and you cannot prove those, only deeds. You can believe it to be very likely that somebody did X because of Y and not because of Z, but you can't prove it.