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Author | : James Q. Whitman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Burden of proof |
ISBN | : 9780300150100 |
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To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of the law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of “reasonable doubt.” It was not originally a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological one.The rule as we understand it today is intended to protect the accused. But Whitman traces its history back through centuries of Christian theology and common-law history to reveal that the original concern was to protect the souls of jurors. In Christian tradition, a person who experienced doubt yet convicted an innocent defendant was guilty of a mortal sin. Jurors fearful for their own souls were reassured that they were safe, as long as their doubts were not “reasonable.” Today, the old rule of reasonable doubt survives, but it has been turned to different purposes. The result is confusion for jurors, and a serious moral challenge for our system of justice.
Author | : K. S. Rajah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Burden of proof |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James Q. Whitman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0300116004 |
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To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.” But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of the law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of “reasonable doubt.” It was not originally a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological one. The rule as we understand it today is intended to protect the accused. But Whitman traces its history back through centuries of Christian theology and common-law history to reveal that the original concern was to protect the souls of jurors. In Christian tradition, a person who experienced doubt yet convicted an innocent defendant was guilty of a mortal sin. Jurors fearful for their own souls were reassured that they were safe, as long as their doubts were not “reasonable.” Today, the old rule of reasonable doubt survives, but it has been turned to different purposes. The result is confusion for jurors, and a serious moral challenge for our system of justice.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Civil procedure |
ISBN | : 9780314938602 |
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Author | : James Ching Yew Loh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Burden of proof |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Torsten Stirner |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004463135 |
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This book provides a comparative assessment of the procedural law governing facts and evidence with references to over 900 judgments and decisions of the European and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as well as the UN Human Rights Committee. It identifies underlying principles which govern the procedural law of these international human rights institutions. Based on the premise of a contextualized procedural law governing facts and evidence, the book analyzes where current approaches lack a foundation in the contextualization premise and offers solutions for recurring procedural problems relating to questions of subsidiarity in fact-finding, burden and standard of proof, as well as the admissibility and evaluation of evidence.
Author | : District Judges Association, Sixth Circuit. Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Criminal procedure |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Scott Turow |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2009-12-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1429957751 |
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In The Burden of Proof, Scott Turow probes the fascinating and complex character of Alejandro Stern as he tries to uncover the truth about his wife's life. Late one spring afternoon, Alejandro Stern, the brilliant defense lawyer from Presumed Innocent, comes home from a business trip to find that Clara, his wife of thirty years, has committed suicide.
Author | : Jasmina Mačkić |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2018-07-26 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004359850 |
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In Proving Discriminatory Violence at the European Court of Human Rights Jasmina Mačkić explores the engagement of a fundamental European institution with the phenomenon of discriminatory violence, namely, the European Court of Human Rights.
Author | : Albert Kenneth Roland Kiralfy |
Publisher | : Butterworths |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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