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In the Case of in Re Winship, the United States

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In the case of In re Winship, the United States Supreme Court decided that:


A) juvenile courts could use whatever legal standard of proof the respective state law required because juvenile courts were not subject to federal constitutional standards.
B) proof beyond a reasonable doubt had never been required by the Fourteenth Amendment for juvenile cases.
C) juveniles who are tried in juvenile courts had to have their cases decided by proof beyond a reasonable doubt when the acts of which they stood accused would have been crimes if done by adults.
D) when juveniles were charged with acts that would have been crimes if they had been done by adults, it was not required that they be adjudicated by the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt because a juvenile case is considered civil in nature.

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