Does this mean:
“There is reasonable doubt over whether you actually committed this crime…”
or
“We reasonably doubt your “not gulity” plea.”
?
“Guilty beyond reasonable doubt” means that there is no reasonable doubt about the accused’s commission of the crime.
To put it another way, the prosecutor has to show, beyond reasonable doubt, that the accused committed the crime.
Yeah, but,
Does “Guilty beyond reasonable doubt” mean that there is very little, if any, doubt about someone’s guilt?
ie “There is no doubt that you committed the crime”.
“Guilty beyond a resonable doubt” means that the twelve good men and true (sorry, I had to throw that in) on the jury plus the judge have no reasonable doubt that the accused committed the crime. That is the burden on the prosecution, and it is a large one. It means that the evidence is convincing and the defense has not been able to raise any doubts. Now, this does not mean that the accused did the crime. Maybe some Big Governmental Conspiracy did it and framed him for some unknown reason. But with no evidence to back up those claims of the defendant not being guilty, the defendant is guilty beyond a resonable doubt.