"Beyond a shadow of a doubt" used to be achieved via 'hair experts' that would match hair at the scene of a crime to the suspect's. Once genetics came into play this was found to be a completely unscientific procedure and locked up a lot of innocent people. So yeah, legally the term means something different than what we think it should mean.
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Date: 19/3/13 17:42 (UTC)