With an effort to amend the Constitution going on, we might as well propose the deletion of Article 39. This article states that a suspect or defendant in a criminal case is presumed innocent, and that before the court convicts a person, he cannot be treated as a convict.

This right has been repeatedly violated, and no one raises the issue. A case in point is the recent police news conference in which a drug suspect was thrown before a pack of reporters who had a field day abusing him verbally. The suspect dropped his head in disgrace, but a four-star police general gently pushed the man's chin up to face the snarling wolves. He even touched-up the suspect's tousled hair.

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