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Guilty, until proven innocent, or until it's proven that there's no law that is being broken.

The defendant still has to pay for their defense, even if the charges were frivolous.

Exactly, and defense of a federal prosecution is a multi-million dollar defense.

Federal criminal prosecutions have a 91% conviction rate. 89% plead guilty, only 2.3% go to trial and most of those are convicted. A Just Us system.

A crime will always be found.

When I played Half-Life 2 for the first time as a teen, the dialogue of

man 1: "They have no reason to come to our place." man 2: "Don't worry, they'll find one"

felt so abstract