WSDC 2022 | Quarter Final | Sri Lanka v Canada

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Canada (proposition) v Sri Lanka (opposition)

This motion has an infoslide:
Criminal trials typically end in one of two verdicts – “guilty” or “not guilty”. Under Scots law there exists a third verdict -“not proven”. This is typically used to indicate the jury or judge believe the defendant could potentially be guilty, but there is not sufficient evidence to convict. In a “not proven” verdict, the prosecutor has the option to retry a case, while this is not possible in a “not guilty” decision.

The motion reads:
THP a world in which juries/judges can use a “not proven” verdict in criminal courts, in addition to “guilty” and “not guilty” verdicts.