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24 relations: Adversarial system, Appellate court, Blackstone's formulation, Burden of proof (law), Columbia Law Review, Common law, Critical thinking, In dubio pro reo, In re Winship, Jurisdiction, Jurisprudence, Jury instructions, Metacognition, Moral certainty, Presumption of innocence, Probable cause, R v Lifchus, R v Starr, R v Wanhalla, Reasonable person, Reasonable suspicion, Shigemitsu Dandō, Supreme Court of the United States, William Young (judge).
Adversarial system
The adversarial system or adversary system is a legal system used in the common law countries where two advocates represent their parties' case or position before an impartial person or group of people, usually a jury or judge, who attempt to determine the truth and pass judgment accordingly.
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Appellate court
An appellate court, commonly called an appeals court, court of appeals (American English), appeal court (British English), court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear an appeal of a trial court or other lower tribunal.
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Blackstone's formulation
In criminal law, Blackstone's formulation (also known as Blackstone's ratio or the Blackstone ratio) is the principle that: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer",...as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s.
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Burden of proof (law)
The burden of proof (onus probandi) is the obligation of a party in a trial to produce the evidence that will prove the claims they have made against the other party.
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Columbia Law Review
The Columbia Law Review is a law review edited and published by students at Columbia Law School.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent or judge-made law, or case law) is that body of law derived from judicial decisions of courts and similar tribunals.
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Critical thinking
Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment.
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In dubio pro reo
The principle of in dubio pro reo (Latin for " in doubt, for the accused") means that a defendant may not be convicted by the court when doubts about his or her guilt remain.
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In re Winship
In re Winship, 397 U.S. 358 (1970), was a United States Supreme Court decision that held that "the Due Process clause protects the accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime charged."Criminal Law - Cases and Materials, 7th ed.
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Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak") is the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice within a defined field of responsibility, e.g., Michigan tax law.
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Jurisprudence
Jurisprudence or legal theory is the theoretical study of law, principally by philosophers but, from the twentieth century, also by social scientists.
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Jury instructions
Jury instructions are the set of legal rules that jurors ought follow when deciding a case.
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Metacognition
Metacognition is "cognition about cognition", "thinking about thinking", "knowing about knowing", becoming "aware of one's awareness" and higher-order thinking skills.
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Moral certainty
Moral certainty is a concept of intuitive probability.
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Presumption of innocence
The presumption of innocence is the principle that one is considered innocent unless proven guilty.
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Probable cause
In United States criminal law, probable cause is the standard by which police authorities have reason to obtain a warrant for the arrest of a suspected criminal or the issuing of a search warrant.
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R v Lifchus
R v Lifchus, 3 SCR 320 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the legal basis of the "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard for criminal law.
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R v Starr
R v Starr 2 SCR 144 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision that re-evaluated several principles of evidence.
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R v Wanhalla
R v Wanhalla was a case in the Court of Appeal of New Zealand concerning how a judge should direct a jury in a criminal case as to interpretation of the standard of proof, beyond reasonable doubt.
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Reasonable person
In law, a reasonable person, reasonable man, or the man on the Clapham omnibus is a hypothetical person of legal fiction crafted by the courts and communicated through case law and jury instructions.
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Reasonable suspicion
Reasonable suspicion is a legal standard of proof in United States law that is less than probable cause, the legal standard for arrests and warrants, but more than an "inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or 'hunch; it must be based on "specific and articulable facts", "taken together with rational inferences from those facts", and the suspicion must be associated with the specific individual.
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Shigemitsu Dandō
was a professor of the department of Social and Political sciences at the University of Tokyo, an academic researcher of criminology, and a Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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William Young (judge)
Sir William Gillow Gibbes Austen Young (born 14 April 1952) is a Supreme Court Judge, and former President of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_doubt
