beyond reasonable doubt

beyond reasonable doubt {adv. phr.}, {formal and legal}

Virtually certain; essentially convincing.

The judge instructed the jurors to come up with a verdict of guilty only if they were convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that Algernon was the perpetrator.

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