 In criminal proceedings, the governing standard is “proof beyond a reasonable doubt”. In civil cases, the standard is typically “preponderance of the evidence”. The latter is less demanding than the former, so the same body of evidence may be enough to meet the preponderance standard, but not enough to meet the beyond a reasonable doubt standard. A vivid example of this difference is the 1995 trial of O.J. Simpson who was charged with murdering his wife. He was acquitted of the criminal charges, but when the family of the victim brought a lawsuit against him, they prevailed. O.J. Simpson did not kill his wife according to the beyond a reasonable doubt standard, but he did according to the preponderance standard. An intermediate standard, called “clear and convincing evidence”, is sometimes used for civil proceedings in which the decision is particularly weighty, for example, a decision whether someone should be involuntarily committed to a hospital facility.