Beyond a reasonable doubt

Meaning

beyond a reasonable doubt

(law) A legal standard for deciding the outcome of a criminal charge, requiring evidence that is sufficient to eliminate any doubts that a reasonable person might entertain about whether a claim is more likely to be true than not.

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Synonyms

convincingness no doubt beyond a shadow of a doubt

Antonyms

indefinitely contemptuously dubiously doubtfully indecisively disapprovingly
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Examples

That is why a criminal trial is not a search for truth. Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Alan Dershowitz

Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Alan Dershowitz

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. Robert Shapiro

I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy. Henry Wade

Beyond a reasonable doubt is not the standard of proof for the grand jury." Source: Internet

Words in the phrase

Beyond a reasonable doubt

Close letter words and terms

beyond beyond a doubt beyond a reason of a doubt beyond a shadow of a doubt beyond a shadow of doubt beyond all bounds