After three days of courtroom arguments, the 12 men of the jury retire to decide if the boy is guilty beyond reasonable doubt. |
I think we can safely say that the intentionality behind the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 is established beyond reasonable doubt. |
It is the job of the Crown to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, and, as in all criminal trials in Scotland, no crime can be proved without corroboration. |
And a number of them just simply found this notion of beyond reasonable doubt impossible to comprehend. |
When they think someone is double-crossing them they don't have to apply judge's rules and prove it beyond reasonable doubt. |
But for all other articles, including most knives, the onus is on the prosecution to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the possessor intends to use it to cause injury. |