From “Probable Cause” to “Reasonable Certainty of Conviction”: A Call for the Re-Appraisal of the New Evidentiary Standard in Preliminary Investigation
Under the present Rule 112 of the Rules of Criminal Procedure, in criminal cases requiring a preliminary investigation, a prosecutor will file the information with the criminal court if he or she determines after a preliminary investigation that there is probable cause, that is, “there is sufficient ground to engender a well-founded belief that a crime…