
If the jurors or judge have no doubt as to the defendant's guilt, or if their only doubts are unreasonable doubts, then the prosecutor has proven the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and the defendant should be pronounced guilty. Send us feedback about these examples.The standard that must be met by the prosecution's evidence in a criminal prosecution: that no other logical explanation can be derived from the facts except that the defendant committed the crime, thereby overcoming the presumption that a person is innocent until proven guilty.

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Jill Griffin, Forbes, Even in places where there was never a shadow of a doubt about the political leanings of the electorate, election officials have found themselves under threat. Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2022 And the most important question, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is who decides what matters? - New York Times, 18 June 2022 And in the ability of learning functions to prove – beyond a shadow of a doubt – that their work was driving bottom line. 2023 But Anastasiia, without a shadow of a doubt, wants to make her allegiances clear. 2023 Kash is an absolute animal lover, and Sinn is definitely his favorite, without a shadow of a doubt. Vulture, 11 July 2023 Beyond a shadow of a doubt, this virus will be one of the very first serious pathogens that today’s infants-and all future infants-meet.

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