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Tom McClintock: God forbid if we walk into our courtrooms or in our proceedings now and find somebody guilty of something we're calling…

On the recordDecember 3, 2019
God forbid if we walk into our courtrooms or in our proceedings now and find somebody guilty of something we're calling a crime, and we walk into court now and all of a sudden, well, I thought it was.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

McClintock criticizes the presumption of guilt without concrete evidence.

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