eli5: What does a “preponderance of evidence” entail for civil suits?

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eli5: What does a “preponderance of evidence” entail for civil suits?

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Answer 1

1) A man walks into a store.

2) The same man walks out of the store carrying one of the store’s bags in one hand.

Did he buy something? Who’s to say “for sure”?

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But the preponderance of evidence would lead you to believe that he did.