User:Megatron888/Talk:Criminal law of the United States

Burden of proof[edit]
Main articles: Philosophic burden of proof, Legal burden of proof, Presumption of innocence, Reasonable doubt, and Standard of proof

In the United States, the adversarial system is used. The prosecution must prove each element of the alleged crime beyond a reasonable doubt for conviction. Corpus delicti is also required, where the principle that a crime must be proved to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime, confession is not enough to prove that a crime has occurred.

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Burden of proof is the dominant theory in the United States as a dispute resolution. Burden of proof is a system in which the government has decided is an adequate role to settle disputes between civilians in civil cases and in criminal prosecution.