What is the test for "beyond a reasonable doubt" in a sexual assault case?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Decator, 2009 ONCA 290 (CanLII):
As McLachlin J. noted in R v. W. (R.), 1992 CanLII 56 (SCC), [1992] 2 S.C.R. 122, at p. 131 – to put the same notion in more positive terms – the question is “whether the trier of fact could reasonably have reached the conclusion that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt”.
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