Presumptions

As we all know there is normally a “presumption” of innocence in our judicial system. But for Beautiful Disaster there may be a presumption of guilt – at least when it comes to traffic offenses. This week, she was pulled over for not having a front license plate, and sporting a tinted cover on her back license plate. Her defenses, however, far from exonerating her, serve to buttress the case against her. For instance, she argues that there were far more egregious things wrong with her vehicle such as the tint on her windows. She also argues that on the times she was stopped before (which belies her clean driving record argument), the police officer never commented on the license plate. Finally, she tries to read in an aesthetic defense to the license plate defense. As she recited her defenses, it became apparent that perhaps her best hope would be a presumption of silence, on her part.