Your right many are and even before the trial begins, actually even before the person is actually charged. The media is only interested in ratings and money and will crucify anyone who can give the above said. Money is the big motivator, not justice.

I've been concerned about this for some time. I have known an alarming amount of people who have been murdered, and in every case the media got major details of the story wrong, often times for no reason other than not checking facts or even changing them to suit their spin. That was the first thing that began to alarm me. Our local news allows people to comment on stories on their website, and I am alarmed by the cyberlynch mob that seems to form around certain stories. I think people would genuinely like to hang some accused people without trial. One case I found particularly alarming was that of a local teacher accused of killing her newborn. The evidence showed that the baby had broken bones and people wanted to string her up. Hanging was too good for her. But this was the day after the baby died, and there was no way that any testing could have been done yet. No one wanted to wait and see if the baby might have had Brittle Bone syndrome. There is plenty of precedent for parents being accused of abusing or killing a child who later proved to have brittle bone syndrome, so I would think people would have heard of that. Why would we want to risk piling injustice on top of tragedy. Why not wait long enough for genetic testing to be done? And of course, there is the Jon-Benet Ramsey case. The Ramseys were tried and convicted in the court of Globe, Star and National Enquirer ten years ago. They were even calling for the blood of her 9 year old brother. Now the Ramseys have been cleared by new DNA technology, which proved that an unknown man pulled down her longjohns. The Denver DA has apologized publicly. The news media is slipping easily into the role of blaming the DA's office, forgetting conveniently that they took the story and ran with it. My heart bleeds for the Ramseys. I don't like and never have liked Beauty Pageants, just because they are a smorgasboard for sex offenders. However, that doesn't mean that the Ramseys knew that or had anything to do with the death of their child. Can you imagine, not only having to deal with the rape and murder of your child, but having to do it in the environment that they did? And Patsy Ramsey didn't live long enough to see her name cleared, so we can't apologize to her. This is exactly what the right to jury trial is supposed to prevent. History is littered with tales of judicial excesses, where execution was used to erase government mistakes (Henry the Eighth), silence opponents, control the masses. That constitutional right was put there to protect each and every one of us from exactly the same sort of thing that the Ramseys endured. That could happen to any one of us who has a child. A predator could break into our house like a theif in the night and take our child, then laugh while we take the rap for their abominable crime. Why do we want to give them the means to do it?