Couldn’t have put it better
Ian Carmichael / 20th November 2006
I was just happily reading and enjoying my legal thriller book by Reed Arvin (The Last Goodbye) when I came across the following perceptive comment:
Guilt. That, for the criminal lawyer, is the operative word. It's no accident that juries don't find defendants innocent. They say they're ‘not guilty’, because somewhere in the collective unconscious roams the knowledge that nobody is truly innocent or unstained. Those words just don't fit the human race.