“Beyond a reasonable doubt” does not mean “100% certain.”
“Beyond a reasonable doubt” does not mean “100% certain.”
I understand and agree. I suspect if the prosecution could have made the jury 95% or 99% sure there was a murder, they might have been more willing to convict the mother.
But if you were on a jury and felt the state had established with about 70% certainty that the child had been murdered and not killed accidentally, would you vote to convict? Did you read the numbers I put out there in my original post in this thread?