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What does the prosecution have to prove in a New Jersey criminal case?

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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.

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