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31stArrival » Today, 4:57 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 4:57 am

your mockery is traditional behavior of a person denying all they been since conceived as historically preserved by the institutions of academia, arts, economics keeping reasonable doubt rule of law for 7 thousand years placed into this country's legal system.
Here this is the two things I found just a minute ago on google asking it the question "When did reasonable doubt become part of the American legal system?".

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The standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" wasn't explicitly enshrined in the Constitution until 1970, when the Supreme Court case In re Winship established that a juvenile who is charged with conduct that would give rise to criminal liability for an adult has a due process right to have the elements of the offense proven beyond a reasonable doubt, according to the Supreme Court. While the concept of reasonable doubt was familiar to the Framers and was regularly included in jury charges, it wasn't formally constitutionally guaranteed until 1970.

Origins:
The concept of reasonable doubt has roots in the 18th century in the American colonies, but it wasn't until the late 1800s that the Supreme Court explicitly addressed it in a case.