Reasonable doubt is the highest standard of proof used in criminal cases, demanding more than a mere probability or likelihood of guilt. It requires an abiding conviction to a moral certainty, leaving ...

A prominent former federal prosecutor recently said that the various criminal charges against Donald Trump "can be proved" beyond the legal standard of reasonable doubt. Glenn Kirschner previously ...

In 1991, seven black and five white jurors convicted Troy Davis of murder in the shooting death of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. Davis sat on Georgia’s deathrow for 20 years. Leading up to ...

Another member of Colorado’s second-highest court registered his concern on Thursday that a portion of the recently revised “reasonable doubt” definition improperly lowers the prosecution’s burden to ...

Defense attorney Randy Zelin said Tuesday on CNN that prosecutors failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that former President Trump is guilty of falsifying business records in the ongoing New York ...

Attorney and legal analyst Glenn Kirschner said on Friday that it was "absolutely the right call" for the prosecution to bring Michael Cohen to the witness stand in the criminal hush money trial ...

Donald Trump’s recent conviction on 34 felony counts hands the master of branding with short vignettes a very heavy dose of his own medicine. “Convicted felon” packs a mighty punch in our society – at ...

The Oklahoma County district attorney is seeking to dismiss a nearly half-century old murder case. “We just don’t have the belief we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt Mr. Simmons' guilt,” said ...

DENVER — "Hesitate to act." Three simple words that, according to defense attorneys like Scott Jurdem, have, for decades, provided critical protection for criminal defendants in Colorado. Those three ...

Although Colorado’s second-highest court has issued multiple decisions in recent months upholding a revised definition of “reasonable doubt” from three years ago, an appellate judge became the first ...

Survival - but at what cost? The addictively dark drama about teen plane-crash survivors who turn savage. Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci and Ella Purnell lead a starry cast.

Observing that suspicion, however strong, cannot substitute proof beyond reasonable doubt, the Calcutta High Court has set aside the conviction of a man accused of murdering his wife, holding ...