At 04:55 PM 1/17/95, Sandy Sandfort wrote:

... In my law school they taught that the burden of proof in a criminal case was on the government.

Unless of course the case involves porn, drugs, etc, in which case the current practice in the American legal system places the onus on the accused, regardless of what the Constitution requires. Civil forfeiture is a fine example of this, along with requiring porn producers to demonstrate the age of their models, etc ad nauseum. --Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com