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More than 10.000 documents for beyond a reasonable doubt definition

- Victor v. Nebraska, 511 U.S. 1 (1994)
...The government must prove beyond a reasonable doubt every element of a charged offe...In only one case have we held that a definition of reasonable doubt violated the Due Process Claus...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Lego v. Twomey: the improbable relationship between an obscure Supreme Court decision and wrongful convictions.
... the charged crime must be established beyond a reasonable doubt (10)--that is, the presumption ...(42) Because, as a definitional matter, the preponderance standard only requires t...
- American Criminal Law Review
- Vol. 47 Nbr. 3, June 2010
- Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000)
... that a bias finding be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt. The State Supreme Court affirm... otherwise legally prescribed were by definition "elements" of a separate legal offense. 11 As we s...
- U.S. Supreme Court

- Reasonable Medical Certainty: A Rose by Any Other Name
...Rappeport's definition of reasonable medical certainty is "that level of ... and child custody determinations, and beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal cases? Some courts ...
- Journal of Psychiatry & Law
- Vol. 34 Nbr. 3, October 2006
- Cage v. Louisiana, 498 U.S. 39 (per curiam) (1990)
... against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to cons... would understand the reasonable doubt definition. Held:. The instruction was contrary to the "bey...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Warren Lee Hill, Jr. v. Carl Humphrey, (11th Cir. 2011)
... where defendant proves mental retardation beyond reasonable doubt). . Although Georgia alrea... although the states’ “statutory definitions of mental retardation are not identical, [they] ge...
- Federal Circuits
- Montana v. Egelhoff, 518 U.S. 37 (1996)
... "relieved of part of its burden to prove beyond a reasonable doubt every fact necessary to constit... about the State's case" where Ohio's definition of the intent element made self-defense evidence r...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- McMillan v. Pennsylvania, 477 U.S. 79 (1986)
... were sentenced and thus must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt under In re Winship, 397 U.S. ... doubt the state legislature's definition of the elements of the offense is usually disposit...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Smalis v. Pennsylvania, 476 U.S. 140 (1986)
... all of the facts together with all reasonable . Page 476 U.S. 140, 142. inferences which the Co... that either of the defendants was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of setting or causing to be set...' demurrer is not within this definition of an acquittal:. "In deciding whether to grant a...
- U.S. Supreme Court
- United States v. Gaudin, 515 U.S. 506 (1995)
...The parties also agree on the definition of "materiality": The statement must have "a natur... of the crime with which he is charged, beyond a reasonable doubU Sullivan v. Louisiana, 508 U. ...1 The "beyond a reasonable doubt" point is not directly at issue in the present cas...
- U.S. Supreme Court