Not implying guilt <i>should</i> be taken into consideration. People have a legal right to a fair trial, if they don't get one you lose the ability to prosecute as the verdict can easily be thrown out in the face of infallible evidence due to a tainted jury pool.<p>Many times, the law isn't concerned with what you did but why you did it. I could shoot someone in the middle of the street in front of 200 people, however he might have just tried to sink me with a knife to get my wallet. It's the jury's job to decide whether I'm guilty on <i>all the evidence</i>, not on what a newspaper publishes.<p>This is why in Crown countries the government frequently has the ability to put a press-embargo on a case until after conviction.