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Falsely Accused

    What has to happen before the media quits jumping to conclusions about
news stories ? It makes you wonder about the possibility of legal restrictions
on the amount of information that the media can put out before the actual case
is proven and solved. I mean after all in the case of Richard Jewell , there was
a definite issue of false accusations . This man was treated unfairly under the
false assumption that he was guilty of a crime that he did not commit.
    I think that Jewell should defiantly be compensated for the anguish that
he had to go through for over three months after that bombing. It was not bad
enough that he had to see his co-workers and hundreds of innocent people
endangered and injured by the terrible incident in Atlanta. He also had to go
through being accused of being behind the whole thing . How much worse could it
get? I mean what should people start to think ? He said that he felt like an
animal being stalked , just waiting to be killed . Now who are we to listen to ?
This innocent man or the media , who obviously will print what it takes true or
untrue , to make a story .
    I think that we as Americans owe the accused of there legal right of
innocent until proven guilty before we can start accusing them publicly. There
is no reason to believe what is being said in the media until there is some
definite truth in the case . I mean just because the cops may have beliefs that
there is guilt means nothing . After all the FBI gave the media inf...

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Submitted by: 123student
Date Submitted: 10-06-03 10:30am
Category: Law
Words: 484
Pages: 1.94