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A Response To Harel And Porat: On The Inadmissibility Of The Aggregated Probabilities Principle, Doron Menashe Dr.

Mahdi Naamnee

This article is a response to an article by Alon Harel and Ariel Porat, recently published in the Michigan Law Review. In the article, the authors argue that, under certain conditions, courts should be permitted to convict a defendant in an unspecified offense. This possibility is meant to address situations in which there is no reasonable doubt that the defendant committed an offense, even though the prosecution failed to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant committed any specific offense of which he was accused. The authors term this new decision principle as the Aggregated Probabilities Principle – APP.

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