Levmore, Saul; Porat, Ariel - In: The Journal of Legal Studies 40 (2011) 2, pp. 273-273
Virtually every burden of proof is influenced by a rule regarding relitigation. In criminal law, the prosecutor is prevented from repeatedly drawing from the urn, as it were, by the double-jeopardy rule, which reinforces the beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard. We suggest that if law were to...