This guide explains the reasonable person standard and how it is applied in legal cases. What Is the Reasonable Person Standard? Did the defendant use the level of care and caution that an ...

Some say, "hindsight is 20/20" and there may be no better example than when we make a choice with unexpected and unfortunate results. Would we have chosen differently in retrospect? Clearly.

The Court overturns the conviction under this standard because the jury convicted based only on a “reasonable person”-perception standard: Elonis’s conviction, however, was premised solely ...

WASHINGTON — Loudoun County is proposing changes to its noise standards in order to accommodate a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that the “reasonable person” standard is too vague for ...