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How certain would you have to be to convict?

Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:45 am
Posted by UFFan
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:45 am
If you're 99.9% sure the person's guilty, would this meet beyond a reasonable doubt to you?

What about 99%? 96%?
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 10:49 am
Posted by LNCHBOX
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:46 am to
quote:

If you're 99.9% sure the person's guilty, would this meet beyond a reasonable doubt to you?



Why wouldn't it?

I'd assume anything that would fall in that 0.1% isn't particularly reasonable.
Posted by TheWalrus
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:46 am to
50.1%
Posted by Boudreaux35
BR
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:47 am to
Need to see the person.
Posted by Wtodd
Tampa, FL
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:48 am to
quote:

If you're 99.9% sure the person's guilty, would this meet beyond a reasonable doubt to you?

Yes
Posted by Tigeralum2008
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Member since Apr 2012
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:49 am to
quote:

50.1%


That'll work for a civil jury trial but not criminal justice

You have to be as close to 100% in those cases. 99.999% would mean the only other explanation to who committed the crime would be that aliens from the planet Xenon descended to NBR and planted that weed on ole homeboy.
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:49 am to
Depends on prior convictions. 75% if it's repeated behavior
Posted by Bluefin
The Banana Stand
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:49 am to
Would be hilarious if you're asking this from a deliberation room right now.
Posted by UFFan
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:52 am to
I'm not. In fact I've never even served on a jury before.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:52 am to
Depends how guilty they look
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:54 am to
i know by looking at them if they're guilty.
Posted by foshizzle
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:54 am to
If he's a Florida fan, he's definitely guilty.
Posted by UFFan
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:54 am to
So if it's a pretty women you know to acquit?
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:55 am to
quote:

So if it's a pretty women you know to acquit?


of course
Posted by crispyUGA
Upstate SC
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:56 am to
If it were a criminal trial and I had any doubt about the defendant's guilt, then I could not cast a guilty verdict in good conscience.
Posted by UFFan
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Member since Aug 2016
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:57 am to
What if the defendant who's a beautiful women is actually a biologically male transgender?
This post was edited on 8/10/17 at 10:57 am
Posted by TheAlmightySmash
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2014
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:57 am to
quote:

Would be hilarious if you're asking this from a deliberation room right now.


pretty sure they take phones away before the jury goes in
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
Markey's bar
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:57 am to
very circumstance dependent, but i would have to be at least 98% sure and even that's maybe a lit low.
Posted by MorbidTheClown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2015
66003 posts
Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:58 am to
quote:

What if the defendant who's a beautiful women is actually a biologically male transgender?



then it's not a woman so...
Posted by Brazos
Member since Oct 2013
20361 posts
Posted on 8/10/17 at 10:58 am to
Depends on the race of the suspect.
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