> but usually good actors have an abundance of mitigating evidence at their disposal

You must be joking. That's not how it works when the government has you in their crosshairs.

>and it's usually just easier to say "here's the evidence, we're not guilty".

And then the government will spend years and millions of dollars trying to poke holes in that evidence of innocence.

Anyone who follows the news has seen this repeated over and over again. Various government authorities routinely engage in witch hunts with little evidence.

Maybe Mansoor Adayfi should've just provided evidence of his innocence after being shipped to Guantanamo Bay? They would have immediately released him, right? What a stupid guy he must have been that it took the government 14 years to release him.