Nicola Sturgeon is perfectly entitled to insist she has done nothing wrong in the SNP fraud probe and ask for her presumption of innocence to be respected.
The former First Minister might hope to stay as an SNP MSP for the time being as her successor Humza Yousaf appears completely unable or unwilling to suspend her.
While some of her colleagues are happy to send her a bouquet of flowers after her traumatic seven hours in a police station others are stepping up to call out her hypocrisy.