As Laurens van der Post once said, "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right".
I was convinced beyond doubt by my own experience that there was nowhere to go, nothing to do, and no one to be or become.
"The jury must be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt".
If this were a criminal case, where the jury had to be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt, Dr. Meyerson said he would have to acquit.
Let's hope they do, in fact, require themselves to be convinced — beyond a reasonable doubt — in all of their future cases, a vast majority of which will involve defendants who don't have the power or eminence of Mr. Strauss-Kahn.
"We will present our position to Fifa by Monday morning and they will be convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that we adopted the correct statutes before organising the election," said Giwa. "We call on Nigerians not to panic.
The prosecution would not have launched a case against such a high-profile figure unless it was convinced beyond reasonable doubt [of his guilt]," Partan said.
Along the way, she also told the group more than once that she was convinced beyond any doubt of the book's truth.
Jurors at the inquest were told they could only decide Tomlinson was unlawfully killed if they were convinced beyond reasonable doubt, the same burden of proof which would apply in a criminal trial.
"Once a prosecutor has a case in which he or someone else has achieved a conviction where a body of people have been convinced beyond reasonable doubt someone is guilty and then sentenced them, the presumption becomes that that is a justified verdict that the prosecutor must defend," Mr. Bradley said, explaining his opposition to Mr. Morton's requests.
"I was convinced beyond reasonable doubt at the time [that they were not guilty].
