Hoskins v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Indeed, the state is held to a degree of proof greater than that required to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Furthermore, where the state’s evidence is arguably sufficient to convict, but is contradicted in material respects such that substantial questions of fact are raised as to the guilt or innocence of a defendant, then a trial court may properly find that the proof of guilt is not evident or the presumption of guilt is not great.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 132 So. 3d 300 - Seymour v. State