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2022
Abstract This chapter is dedicated to the argument against intermediate criminal verdicts that has played the most prominent role in the Italian and in the Scottish debates. This is the argument according to which such verdicts are incompatible with the presumption of innocence.
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Abstract This chapter is dedicated to the argument against intermediate criminal verdicts that has played the most prominent role in the Italian and in the Scottish debates. This is the argument according to which such verdicts are incompatible with the presumption of innocence.
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The Presumption of Innocence: Material or Probatory?
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005In all cases of penal procedure, the declared supposition is, that the party accused is innocent; and for this supposition, mighty is the laud bestowed upon one another by judges and law-writers. This supposition is at once contrary to fact, and belied by their own practice….
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2019
This chapter introduces the Epistemic non-Distinctiveness thesis, the view that the cognitive convictions of the Christian and other religions enjoy evidential parity with everyday commitments. It argues that establishing the EnD is central to fulfilling the two requirements outlined in Chapter 1 and helping bring “epistemic peace” to the reflectively ...
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This chapter introduces the Epistemic non-Distinctiveness thesis, the view that the cognitive convictions of the Christian and other religions enjoy evidential parity with everyday commitments. It argues that establishing the EnD is central to fulfilling the two requirements outlined in Chapter 1 and helping bring “epistemic peace” to the reflectively ...
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Corporations and the Presumption of Innocence
Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2013Corporate behaviour is often regulated through the criminal law by means of reverse onus offences. Such offences are alleged to involve violations of the Presumption of Innocence. Such allegations almost always assume natural persons as defendants. The arguments supporting reverse onus offences are typically instrumental, to do with the importance of ...
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Pioglitazone, Bladder Cancer, and the Presumption of Innocence
Current Drug Safety, 2022Background: Thiazolidinediones are potent exogenous agonists of PPAR-γ that augment the effects of insulin to its cellular targets, mainly at the level of adipose tissue. Pioglitazone, the main thiazolidinedione in clinical practice, has shown cardiovascular and renal benefits in patients with type 2 diabetes, durable reduction of glycated ...
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The Ideal of the Presumption of Innocence
Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2013This article clarifies and further defends the view that the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, protected by Article 6(2) of the European Convention of Human Rights has implications for the substantive law. It is shown that a ‘purely procedural’ conception of the presumption of innocence has absurd implications for the nature of the ...
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The Presumption of White Innocence
American Quarterly, 2014This essay considers how “the presumption of innocence” in self-defense cases not only functions through whiteness but also normalizes violence against the black and/or brown body. Consequentially, “the presumption of innocence” renders black victimhood and black innocence illegible.
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