What Chance Of Innocence Can Be Tolerated For Conviction?

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I'd go by the instruction of the court.

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"Any doubt which would make a reasonable person hesitate in the most important of his or her affairs."


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I don't see anything in there that requires me to put the question in terms of "chance" or some kind of psuedo-probability model.

PairTheBoard

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you realize that reasonable doubt IS probability its just not defined by the court, rather its left to each person to define for themselves.

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I absolutely don't know that. In fact I do know that is a philisophical assertion, not a mathematical one.

PairTheBoard