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Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: Everyone charged with a crime under US law is to be presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty. But the June pre-trial hearings in the cases of five men charged with planning the 9/11 attacks revealed clear presumption of guilt on the part of the government.

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