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Preponderance of Evidence
Thinking of Filing a personal injury lawsuit in Dallas? You must deal with the standard of proof known as the Preponderance of Evidence
If you are a plaintiff in a personal injury case, the burden of proof is on you. This means that you must prove your case and the defendant is considered innocent until you do. But, unlike criminal cases, you do not have to prove your case “beyond all reasonable doubt.”
For civil cases, you must have a burden called the preponderance of evidence. This simply means that the defendant is more likely guilty than innocent. The amount or type of evidence is irrelevant, so long as the plaintiff’s story is more believable than the defendant’s, according to the jury, based on the evidence at hand. In criminal cases, a defendant must be proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt, which is a much more strict standard. But for the vast majority of civil cases, if the judge or jury deems that the plaintiff’s story is more likely true than not, or that the defendant is more likely guilty than not, or that the plaintiff more likely deserves compensation than not, then the preponderance of evidence is met. This preponderance of evidence can be a single, all-important factor (i.e., the driver that injured a pedestrian was drunk), or it can be a large volume of evidence, consisting of, for example, crash reports, witness testimony, and anything else an experienced attorney might find.
The Dallas personal injury attorneys of Grossman Law Offices have been working on person injury cases for twenty years. We are intimately familiar with the specific legal tactics necessary to secure the compensation you deserve, so if you have been hurt due to someone else’s negligence, contact a Dallas personal injury attorney at Grossman Law Offices today.
What is preponderance of evidence?
$187,500.00
$61,875.00
$2,500.00
$100,000.00
$33,000.00
$0.00
$70,000.00
$23,100.00
$600.00
$40,000.00
$16,000.00
$1,168.00
$70,000.00
$23,333.00
$656.00
$100,000.00
$33,000.00
$100.00
$90,000.00
$30,000.00
$562.00
$180,000.00
$38,333.00
$138.00
$700,000.00
$175,000.00
$1,084.00
$125,000.00
$41,250.00
$5,000.00
$30,000.00
$10,000.00
$500.00
$71,197.00
$23,852.00
$125.00
$100,000.00
$40,000.00
$2,500.00