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Reasonable Doubt in Islamic Law [PDF]
, 2015 Doubt pervades most laws, becomes alarming when it arises in criminal law, and seems especially discomfiting in the context of Islamic criminal law. In the high-stakes area of American criminal prosecutions, dubious facts or ambiguous laws can result in ...
Rabb, Intisar A., Rabb, Intisar
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Do Juries Understand the Criminal Standard of Proof of Beyond Reasonable Doubt? [PDF]
, 2021 In Green v The Queen and La Fontaine v The Queen, the High Court stated that it is both unnecessary and unwise for a trial judge to seek to explain to the jury the meaning of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, on the ground that the phrase is well understood ...
Hemming, Andrew
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In Defence of Reasonable Doubt [PDF]
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2016 AbstractIn criminal trials the state must establish, to a particular standard of proof, the defendant's guilt. The most widely used and important standard of proof for criminal conviction is the ‘beyond a reasonable doubt' standard. But what legitimates this standard, rather than an alternative? One view holds the standard of proof should be determined
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Reasonable Doubt Revisited [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 Choice rules based on probability thresholds are common in several disciplines. The most well-known application of such a threshold rule is the standard of reasonable doubt. Accordingly, a rational juror prefers to convict a defendant if and only if the probability that she attaches to the defendant being guilty is above a given threshold.
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James Bradley Thayer i problem „niekonstytucyjności ponad wszelką wątpliwość”
Przegląd Konstytucyjny, 2023 James Bardley Thayer and the Problem of „Unconstitutionality Beyond Reasonable Doubt” The main purpose of this paper is the presentation of Harvard Law School scholar James Bradley Thayer and his ...
Jerzy Zajadło
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Beyond Reasonable Doubt: An Abductive Dilemma in Criminal Law
Informal Logic, 2008 In criminal cases at common law, juries are permitted to convict on wholly circumstantial evidence even in the face of a reasonable case for acquittal. This generates the highly counterintuitive—if not absurd—consequence that there being reason to think ...
John Woods
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Quantifying Reasonable Doubt [PDF]
, 2020 This article contributes in three ways to the prior literature on the reasonable doubt standard. First, it synthesizes the insular strands of historical, economic, jurisprudential, and doctrinal scholarship on reasonable doubt.
Luppi, Barbara +2 more
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Dynamics of Intellectual Confidence in Problem Solving
Вестник Московского университета. Серия 14: Психология, 2023 Background. The problem of criteria for evaluating solution success is one of the most important for psychology of creative thinking. Evaluation of the solution by the subject during the process of thinking in the form of «confidence / doubt» can be ...
Marina I. Kunashenko +1 more
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The Standard of Proof in Criminal Proceedings: the Threshold to Prove Guilt under Ethiopian Law
Mizan Law Review, 2015 The standard of proof plays a vital role in the process of administration of justice. In criminal proceedings, the standard stipulates the degree to which the party who has the burden of proof needs to establish the facts constituting the elements of ...
HA Zemichael
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On measuring quantitative interpretations of reasonable doubt. [PDF]
, 2017 Beyond reasonable doubt represents a probability value that acts as the criterion for conviction in criminal trials. I introduce the membership function (MF) method as a new tool for measuring quantitative interpretations of reasonable doubt.
Dhami, MK
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