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The Prosecutor’s Goal in a Jury Trial

Posted by brestonlaw on January 5th, 2011 under Burden of Proof Tags:  •  No Comments

As noted previously, the topic for my daily blogs wavers between relevant headlines and points of criminal defense. Today we will offer a curosry consideration of  the singular subject of ‘burden of proof’.
While the idiom itself may seem particularly simple - its underlying connotations may be much more difficult to grasp. Philosophically or otherwise, the phrase ‘burden of [...]