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304: Is Reasonable Doubt Reasonable?

The Philosophy of Crime

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Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

James Renner: The term beyond a reasonable doubt is one of the most important protections we have to keep innocent people out of prison. He says it's not 100% but somewhere between 50.1% and 99.9%. How sure of guilt does a jury member need to be to find someone guilty? Nobody really knows, he says; it's technically undefined.

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