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Should We Be Convicting People We Don't Believe to Be Guilty?

Quaestio Facti
It is doubtful that knowledge of guilt is a necessary condition for a criminal conviction. More plausibly, justified belief is required. But a criminal conviction is not grounded in belief as straightforwardly as is sometimes assumed. While epistemology
Hock Lai Ho
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Premise Acceptability, Deontology, Internalism, Justification

Informal Logic, 1995
Acceptability is a thoroughly normative epistemic notion. If a statement is acceptable, i.e. it is proper to take it as a premise, then one is justified in accepting it.
James B. Freeman
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Seek Justice, Not Just Deportation: How to Improve Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Law [PDF]

, 2014
Bipartisan politics has prevented meaningful reform to a system in dire need of solutions: Immigration. Meanwhile there are eleven million noncitizens with no valid immigration status who currently reside in the United States and the Department of ...
Corcoran, Erin B.
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The Sometimes “Craven Watchdog”: The Disparate Criminal-Civil Application of the Presumption Against Extraterritoriality [PDF]

, 2014
Increasingly, courts must decide whether U.S. law applies extraterritorially. Courts largely resolve questions of extraterritorial scope using tools of statutory construction. Of these tools, the presumption against extraterritoriality has been ascendant.
Williams, S. Nathan
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Shared parenting: A 70% solution? [PDF]

, 2002
In the context of increased litigation over contact, this article examines the debate around proposals for a presumption of ‘shared parenting’. It concludes that such a presumption would not achieve the aims of its proponents.
Kaganas, F, Piper, CD
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The presumption of innocence as a constitutional phenomenon

Правоприменение, 2023
Report. The presumption of innocence is a legal phenomenon that constantly attracts the attention of researchers. It is considered in legal science from the point of view of its origin, legal formalization, content and meaning.
A. N. Shupitskaya
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The Evolution and Vitality of Merger Presumptions: A Decision-Theoretic Approach [PDF]

, 2015
This article reviews the formulation and evolution of the Philadelphia National Bank anticompetitive presumption through the lens of decision theory and Bayes Law.
Salop, Steven C.
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Procedimientos tributarios: cuestiones polémicas

Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2014
The procedural facets are becoming increasingly important when claiming the liquidations carried out by the tax office. Some of these facets deal with the delay in the tax inspector procedura, tax infringements and preclusión.
Aitor Orena Domínguez
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Presumptions in Communication

Studia Humana, 2016
In the first part of this paper I consider the Gricean account of communication, as structured by the Cooperative Principle and the four maxims. Several authors, including Jean Goodwin [10], Fred Kauffeld [17], Michael Gilbert [7], Ernie Lepore and ...
Moldovan Andrei
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Things We Do with Presumptions: Reflections on \u3ci\u3eKiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

, 2014
The author argues in part I that the presumption should be regarded as categorically inapplicable to statutes conferring jurisdiction on the federal courts.
Vázquez, Carlos Manuel
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