Originally Posted by aka123

For starters publishing mug shot and name, even before preliminary hearing. For pros: term "suspected" was used. US legal system and press culture seems to have hard times understanding that people are not quilty until and if they have been judged so by court.

The practice in US makes it a lot harder to continue your life if you are judged as not quilty. And the assumption can't be that you are quilty, as that is not the starting point in working legal systems, no matter how obvious someone's quiltiness might seem or be.