that held the state does not have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt—rather than by a mere preponderance of the evidence—that an admission or a confession obtained by the police through an ...

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court Thursday upheld a conviction of gross sexual assault against a man who, according to court ...

Bill would change the standard of proof from "beyond a reasonable doubt" to "by a preponderance of the evidence," aligning ...

Sir William Blackstone famously said that it is "better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer." The ...

Closing arguments were made Wednesday in the second trial of Eric Thompson who is accused of killing his wife’s lover Jon Tokuhara.

I have written before on some of the legal issues that are involved with the present political climate. Again, I find that the legal principals of “allegations” as opposed to the principal of ...

Amesty Haley Smith was found guilty in the 2019 stabbing death of her boyfriend and sentenced to 45 years in prison back in ...

Our attorney worked very hard on her presentation, and we had a substantial amount of evidence that she presented ... evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt." "I just don’t know why ...

Georgia remains the only state where it must be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt,” the highest standard of proof in law.