what does “beyond a reasonable doubt” mean?
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I’m not competent to answer but it is a hugely subtle question, right? It must have to do with the jury’s understanding of the statistics of the evidence. I worry, like, if a witness says “the perpetrator had a red hat and a beard,” and if you go driving around and out of a crowd of 1,000,000 people choose one with a red hat and a beard, how that is so much different than if you are in a small town and only one guy in the town usually wears a red hat and has a beard. But the jury never sees this context. So ‘reasonable doubt’ whatever it means can’t just concern the quality of the evidence, but some wider context which I really can’t understand myself.
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