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Juries make guilty/not guilty findings, not innocence.
by bagels 3y ago
Juries make guilty/not guilty findings, not innocence.
- PebblesRox 3y agoWhat's the technical distinction between "not guilty" and "innocent?"
- vharuck 3y agoIANAL, but Innocent = "We, the jury, are certain the defendant didn't do it." Not guilty = "The prosecution did not convince us, the jury, that the defendant did it." And because our criminal justice system is not set up to establish innocence, only to check if there's enough evidence to prove guilt, we don't use the term "innocent" for decisions.
- jurgenaut23 3y agoYou’re a statistician, aren’t you?