If the prosecutor in a criminal trial failed to convince the trier of fact (the judge or jury) that no reasonable doubt existed as to the defendant's guilt, a plaintiff may nevertheless be able to show that it was more likely than not (
the definition of a preponderance of the evidence) that the defendant committed the child abuse alleged in a civil trial.
When multiple peer - reviewed manuscripts provided psychometric data for a given instrument, the
preponderance of the
evidence needed to be consistent with our
definition of «good» for a measure to qualify as «well - established.»