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To be convicted of a crime in the United States, a person must be proven guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt." But what is reasonable doubt? Even sophisticated legal experts find this fundamental doctrine difficult to explain. In this accessible book, James Q. Whitman digs deep into the history of the law and discovers that we have lost sight of the original purpose of "reasonable doubt." It was not originally a legal rule at all, he shows, but a theological one.The rule as we understand it today ...Vis mer
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ISBN
9780300219906
Forlag
Yale University Press
Publiseringsår
2016
Språk
Engelsk
Originaltittel
The Origins of Reasonable Doubt
Format
Frakt og retur
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