What does it mean to be presuming criminal?

it means you don't have to say a single thing or prove a single thing in your defense. You could be silent the entire trial and put on no defense whatsoever. Unless the prosecution can prove that you committed all of the required elements of the crime, you should be judged not guilty.

Explanation:

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .