What probability should a jury address? |
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| Authors: | Tony Gardner-Medwin |
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| Institution: | Tony Gardner-Medwin is a neurophysiologist at University College London. He has a particular interest in the use of confidence-based marking to motivate students to justify their beliefs, to improve both learning and educational assessment. |
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| Abstract: | Probability of guilt is not the criterion on which a verdict in a criminal trial should be based, says Tony Gardner-Medwin . The courts, quite sensibly, do not even allow access to some of the background evidence on which a proper assessment of this probability should be made. He argues that a more satisfactory criterion is the probability, or degree of belief, that the evidence could have arisen without guilt. |
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