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Not a lawyer (though at some point I should just say screw it and go to law school), but there's really no mapping as far as I know.

One of the things to remember about civil lawsuits are that the parties are generally treated as if they are on equal footing, and the standard of proof is "preponderance of the evidence", rather than "beyond reasonable doubt".

The criminal justice system is setup to mitigate the advantage of the government over the accused in a case that could result in loss of freedom (or even loss of life). The civil "justice" system is there to resolve disputes between theoretically equal parties in cases that mostly come down to money.

In practice, of course, our adversarial system gets thrown completely out of whack by that same money, but for the moment, the law is what it is.




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