Short of proving your innocence, the controversy will take a toll, guilty or not.

FORBES

" After all, just as the sun sets every night, so it will rise--"allowing you once again to relive your innocence, your youth and your freedom.

FORBES: Peter Greenberg

When the only way forward is to loudly proclaim your innocence, while kind-of-sort-of hinting that you might not really be innocent, while blaming the media, while using the media, it disincentivizes dignity.

FORBES: When Defiance Replaced Responsibility

But beneath the depiction of that chaos, beneath that fearful presentation, there is also a sense that if you come to Lagos, the songs seem to say, you just have to be strong, you have to stand on your own two feet, you have to lose your innocence, you have to learn so much, you have to be wise.

BBC: Sense of the City: Lagos

Future historians almost always reject this kind of excuse-making, and I suspect that this will happen with Wal-Mart, despite your claims to its innocence.

ECONOMIST: Under new management

But it seems possible that the rules will include a presumption of innocence, the need for proof beyond reasonable doubt, and the right to choose your counsel.

ECONOMIST: Liberty v security