>  On 2019 Mar 28 12:37:44, you wrote to David Drummond:
> 
>  DD>> What is that saying? - The absence of evidence is not evidence 
of
>  DD>> absence.
> 
>  nc> True, but in court the absence of evidence *is* absence of guilt.
> 
> that depends on the court... some places are "guilty until proven 
innocent"...

Witness federal judge Walter S Smith in Waco, TX, who sentenced the 
Davidians to forty years in prison for using a weapon in the commission 
of a crime the jury said they didn't commit.