The Trial: Beyond reasonable doubt | 45Today, defence barrister Colin Mandy SC made his final bid to the jury in the triple-murder trial of his client Erin Patterson and described one of the ...

The Trial: Beyond reasonable doubt | 45Today, defence barrister Colin Mandy SC made his final bid to the jury in the triple-murder trial of his client Erin Patterson and described one of the ...

The Trial: Beyond reasonable doubt | 45Today, defence barrister Colin Mandy SC made his final bid to the jury in the triple-murder trial of his client Erin Patterson and described one of the ...

The prosecution couldn’t really show that beyond a reasonable doubt because you don’t know exactly how John O’Keefe was standing.

To a screaming crowd of hundreds outside the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Read thanked her legal team and supporters. Her second murder trial was a victory for ...

Now, that was still in this second trial, but what really became paramount was reasonable doubt and the defense hammered home every chance they got: reasonable doubt.

The heart of it might have been something else, but what they’re really fighting for was reasonable doubt. And so they took advantage of every shred of ineffective police work that they could find.

Massachusetts’ instructions on reasonable doubt tell jurors they need to be convinced to a “moral certainty,” said Abramson, who also teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.

Massachusetts’ instructions on reasonable doubt tell jurors they need to be convinced to a “moral certainty,” said Abramson, who also teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.

Each one represented reasonable doubt, and each one meant Read must be acquitted. Brennan, though, leaned more on raw emotion: he opened and closed on O’Keefe himself.