From a reader:

Hi Jonah –
In The Corner today you touched on something that has always rankled me but I never see clarified. Some reader got after you for presuming Jacko guilty before he was ever tried. This reader implied that under our constitution, presuming guilt is a no-no. As a prosecutor, I can tell you that as citizens, we can presume guilt all we want. It is only in a court of law that an individual has the presumption of innocence. On a related note, people with attitudes like your reader often equate a “Not Guilty” verdict with innocence, when the former only means that the government failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt and the latter implies a complete lack of culpability.
Thanks for the great writing.