I disagree. It's a statement of fact about his legal status. I have my private opinion about whether he did the things for which he has been charged - as I'm sure do you - but whether he did them or not is irrelevant to his legal status. I am not a judge. I would like the courts to confirm my private bias but I cannot presume guilt because this is as bad as an assumption that someone cannot be tried and asserting their innocence as universal and unending. The legal status in liberal democracies is 'innocent until proven guilty'. That is a presumption, but it is also (to my mind at least) an absolute.

We must be very careful about the 'fail to prove' notion, because it means we can still socially hold someone as guilty without evidence and behave accordingly. That's a dangerous precedent to set with huge ramifications for minority groups in particular. Until someone is proven guilty in a court of law, we must treat them as innocent. It's one of the main reasons I think fourth wave feminism has also stalled via Mr Depp and Ms Heard, which I talked about here. https://medium.com/p/c0ec43ff7a52