I remember when during the Manson trial, President Nixon was quoted in the press saying that Mason was guilty, directly or indirectly of several murders. Now Nixon was a practicing attorney before holding elected office, and had likely just forgotten to shoehorn in the word "alleged" somewhere, but that didn't deter Charles Manson from holding up in front of the sequestered jury a copy of the LA Times with the bold headline "Manson Guilty, Nixon Declares". Gave the presiding judge a bit of heartburn that day...