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Well, maybe. The strength of the government's case against him and his co-defendants aside, "beyond a reasonable doubt," the level of proof required to convict a criminal suspect, may not be as high a barrier between Black and jail as he thinks...
...well-educated bunch, stumbled over the term's definition. And it is supposed to make convictions difficult. The Constitution requires the government to be damned sure someone is guilty before taking away his life or liberty. "Reasonable doubt," though "quantitatively imprecise," denotes a high "degree of confidence" in a suspect's guilt, wrote U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Harlan in the 1970 case that gave a constitutional imprimatur to the standard...
...easy. At least half a dozen studies have found that when the prosecution's case isn't airtight, juries often interpret "beyond a reasonable doubt" to mean, in effect, probably guilty. In one study, prospective jurors said they would be willing to convict on a 60% chance that the suspect had committed the crime. The problem: it's that word, doubt. In a criminal case, prosecutors have the sole burden of proof. Yet the way most courts define "beyond a reasonable doubt" seems to place the burden on the defendant to show a weakness in the prosecution's arguments. That...
...After the ICC ruling, everything changed," says Zeber Muktar Salim, a spokesman for one of the several S.L.A. factions. The J.E.M.'s head of logistics, Nasiruddin Ahmed Taendy, added: "Khartoum hired the Janjaweed to kill their brother Darfurians. Now the Janjaweed have found out they were deceived - and they suspect the government will sell them out to the I.C.C. We are expecting the numbers of defectors to increase...
State police provided a description of the suspect as a heavyset white male between 5’10” and 5’11” and weighing about 230 lbs. He was wearing a black, puffy, hooded jacket...