A jury convicted a Florida man of first-degree murder Wednesday in the 2018 strangling and beating death of his wife after she refused to appear on a home renovation reality TV show, prosecutors said.
David Tronnes, 55, killed his wife, Shanti Cooper-Tronnes, on April 24, 2018, in the couple’s home in the Orlando neighborhood of Delaney Park, the State Attorney’s Office for the Ninth Judicial Circuit said in a statement Wednesday.
Being guilty and being found guilty are different things. One happens the moment the crime occurs, the other happens when a verdict is rendered. The law goes by the second one because it doesn’t have a crystal ball to figure out the first.
They’re identical in the eyes of the law.
No they aren’t. Even the law just looks for proof “beyond reasonable doubt” rather than saying it’s objective truth. The law allows for appeals because it knows it’s not right all the time. It’ll deny bail if it believes a person is a danger or flight risk, despite having no conviction yet. It will release names of people charged with crimes, knowing that the public often confuses that with guilt. Prosecutors push for convictions rather than truth.
There’s a lot of ways that you can show that actual guilt and lawful guilt are two different things, even in the eyes of the law itself.