Burden of Proof

In American courts the burden of proving a man guilty belongs soley to his accusers, the state prosecutors. The defendant is not required to say or prove anything in his own behalf. Yet in one of the most bizarre criminal cases in recent years, Juan corona was convicted on January 18, 1973 because he failed to prove tat he didn't commit the largest series of murder in American history -- the 1971 killings of twenty-five migrant workers in California.