re: More Mississippi news: Judge doesn't believe in innocent until proven guilty

The article is cornering a judge who's being honest regarding a system that isn't set up correctly.. He freely admitted that time was a hinderence in his contrition but he's also speaking some truth.. The vast majority of the people shuffling through the system are guilty.. The system we have is a minefield in parts of the country, usually due to a lack of proper ratio of players involved from judges and attorneys to those accused of a crime.

Reasonable?

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defendants routinely wait in jail for months without speaking to an attorney because Mississippi doesn’t set a time limit for prosecutors to seek an indictment.

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“Lady, people charged with crimes, they are criminals.. “Sure, their rights are violated, but..

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“I do know that there are innocent people, who are charged and go through the system who are not guilty, in the penitentiary,” Gordon said. “But there is nothing I can do about that.”

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He has the power to either prosecute, let out pending trial, or to straight up release these potentially innocent people who's rights he is very dismissive of.