Giving the benefit of the doubt to someone is always the right thing to do. It says more about you than it does about the other person.
It says that you trust that everyone is doing the best they can.
It says that you want to believe in what’s good about others rather than searching for what’s wrong,
And it says that you believe in possibility.
If you can’t give the benefit of the doubt, it’s likely that your ego is at play or that you haven’t developed trust in yourself.
Just because you gave someone the benefit of the doubt, doesn’t mean they have done the right thing. It simply means that until you have facts that say otherwise, you trust that they did.