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Court your ad whether that be federal
state or municipal
there’s one standard of proof in a
criminal case standard of proof means
what must the prosecutor approve or what
must what must they demonstrate in order
to obtain a conviction and the standard
everyone’s probably heard of it at one
time or another but it has significant
meaning especially if you’re involved in
a jury trial and that is that the state
or the prosecuting Authority whether it
be the government in a federal case the
County prosecutor or district attorney
in a state case or the municipal
prosecutor in a municipal case must
prove uh the defendant guilty Beyond A
Reasonable Doubt beyond the Reasonable
Doubt is is a one of the jury
instructions that’s given to a jury
multiple times during the course of a
trial especially at the end of the trial
when a judge’s instructions about the
law and the facts of the case are
provided to the jury they’re told what
how to interpret Beyond A Reasonable
Doubt and among other things they’re
told it’s not an imaginary doubt but
it’s a doubt in the reasonable conduct
of Affairs that leads a person to
believe that there’s some uh reasonable
again that’s using the same word but
some doubt in the presentation of the
prosecutor and uh if there’s no uh
consensus that the prosecuting Authority
has proven the case Beyond A Reasonable
Doubt the judge’s instructions will
direct that the jury find the person
charged the defendant not guilty
Morristown, NJ criminal defense lawyer Blair R. Zwillman explains what the prosecution needs to prove in a New Jersey criminal case.