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In this most unusual courtroom drama, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Herb brown dramatizes in a remarkable trial the bolatile question of how to evaluate testimony given by a young child. Presumtion of Guilt center around a bright and well adjusted seven year old boy who harbors a terrible secret that prevents him for contradicting the suspicions of the adults who govern his life. Well intentioned as they are, his mother and father, the police, the prosecutor and the expert psychiatrist-perhaps even the jury-make up a formidable array of authority figures whose desire to protect children from a heinous crime causes them to presume pervesion. As the boy fights valiatly to keep his secret in the face of cross examination, the courtroom confrontation explodes in a devastating startling climax....
