We tend to take our criminal-justice presumption-of-innocence tenet for granted until confronted with certain high-profile cases. A Casey Anthony, a Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Pre-trial publicity can skew perceptions–until reined in and balanced by legal analysis.
And then there’s Egypt’s trial of its former President Hosni Mubarak. Isn’t there something inherently incongruous about a cage and a presumption of anything but guilt?