Being a fisherman, I'm happy to open up both our cans of worms.
I would argue that the courts are nowhere for truth, and our opinion of the situation is not best shown to us by lawyers...two initials for you OJ
Throughout our lives things appear to us that are fairly easily defined by the evidence at hand, in spite of what administrators, lawyers, politicians, or others with agenda may contrive. At times the evidence decieves us, but overwhelmingly not.
People are scorned everyday for objectionable actions, why should athletes be exempt? At least in real life, they go on Oprah and confess. The fact that they now hide behind lies and denials should hold them up for more ridicule. They made big boy choices, they should suffer big boy consequences.
Witch hunt? Sort of, but the term witch hunt coins a result that goes looking for an person to fit into it. That's not what happened here. They did go looking for closet skeletons, and what happened was the closet was a war chest stuffed to the gills.