[Download] "Rehabilitating Mental Disorder Evidence After Clark V. Arizona: Of Burdens, Presumptions, And the Right to Raise Reasonable Doubt." by Case Western Reserve Law Review * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Rehabilitating Mental Disorder Evidence After Clark V. Arizona: Of Burdens, Presumptions, And the Right to Raise Reasonable Doubt.
- Author : Case Western Reserve Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 406 KB
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INTRODUCTION A criminal trial is many things: (1) a quest for truth, (2) a moral drama, (3) a means of averting escalating cycles of private vengeance. (4) At its procedural core, though, a criminal trial is the defendant's constitutionally prescribed opportunity (5) to "test the prosecution's case"--that is, to evaluate and to challenge the prosecution's evidence against the defendant. (6) At trial, the defendant is presumed innocent, and this presumption is overcome only if the prosecution proves every element of the charged offense beyond a reasonable doubt. (7)