What is the test for establishing a "sense of justice" in a criminal case?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Johnson v. Superior Court of L. A. Cnty., 208 Cal.Rptr.3d 807 (Cal. App. 2016):
Rochin v. California (1952) 342 U.S. 165, 173, 72 S.Ct. 205, 96 L.Ed. 183 [Due process of law, as a historic and generative principle, precludes defining, and thereby confining, these standards of conduct more precisely than to say that convictions cannot be brought about by methods that offend a sense of justice. ].)
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