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if you
the verdict, if you say he is guilty, only then, until
then he sits there innocent. The Crown has a duty, to
prove that as they brought him here and put him there,
they must prove to you that he is guilty, they have to
prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. They must prove
it so that you feel sure. Members of the Jury,
don't feel sure, if at the end of it all, you entertain
doubt so that you don't feel sure, the Crown would have
failed to discharge its duty before you and you will be
perfectly in order to return a verdict of not guilty.
So that the Crown must prove to your satisfaction so
that you feel sure. If you don't feel sure, you have
sufficient doubt in the matter that you don't feel sure,
the accused must be found not guilty.
You see, the accused as he sits there as I said is
He does not have to prove that he is innocent.
innocent.
As he sits there, the presumption is that he is innocent,
he does not have to prove that he is innocent.
As you
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may have heard me telling him when the case for the
Crown was closed, that he could sit there and say nothing 20
in his defence if he wanted to. And that if he sat there
and said nothing, that would not mean that he is guilty.
The Crown would still have to prove it to your satisfac-
tion so that you feel sure. So that if when you review
the facts and the circumstances, and the inferences, you
are left in doubt so that you don't feel sure, the Crown
would have failed in its duty and the accused must be
found not guilty.
I want to explain the law to you, and Members of
the Jury, you will have to apply the facts as you have
found them. You have to apply those facts to the law
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