circumstantial evidence
proof of facts offered as evidence from which other facts are to be inferred (contrasted with direct evidence).
Origin of circumstantial evidence
1- Also called indirect evidence.
Words Nearby circumstantial evidence
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How to use circumstantial evidence in a sentence
The circumstantial evidence for this origin story, known as inflation, is overwhelming.
A key part of the Big Bang remains troublingly elusive | Charlie Wood | October 7, 2021 | Popular-ScienceSome see the fact that covid-19 first appeared in the same city in which the lab is located as circumstantial evidence that a laboratory accident could be to blame.
Top researchers are calling for a real investigation into the origin of covid-19 | Rowan Jacobsen | May 13, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewHer trial was based largely on circumstantial evidence and the argument that four deaths within the same family could not have happened by coincidence.
An Australian mom was convicted of killing her 4 babies. Scientists say she’s innocent. | Brittany Shammas | May 7, 2021 | Washington PostThe findings buttress other circumstantial evidence accrued over the last decade pointing to that date, said Richard Palin, a petrologist at the University of Oxford.
Scientists Pin Down When Earth’s Crust Cracked, Then Came to Life | Howard Lee | March 25, 2021 | Quanta MagazineThe problem is that there is an enormous amount of both direct and circumstantial evidence to the contrary.
The case, he said, is “built on loose circumstantial evidence.”
Lesley Herring: The Hollywood Murder Case With No Body | Christine Pelisek | March 28, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are rumors, theories, clues, and an intriguing amount of circumstantial evidence that she landed on a desert island.
Amelia Earhart: New Documentary Searches Underwater for Pilot and Her Plane | Jane Mendelsohn | August 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn Italy, however, circumstantial evidence often counts for as much as forensic evidence in the court of law.
“Juries usually prefer circumstantial evidence to direct evidence,” the judge said.
While a jury might refuse to convict on circumstantial evidence a detective is not so deterred.
circumstantial evidence backed by a confession that checks on all angles is about all any jury needs to be convinced of guilt.
If ever there was circumstantial evidence against a man, here it was against Rand-Brown.
The Gold Bat | P. G. WodehouseIt looked right—there was every form of circumstantial evidence against me.
The White Desert | Courtney Ryley CooperBut the same thing might be said of all judicial inquiries which proceed on circumstantial evidence.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart Mill
British Dictionary definitions for circumstantial evidence
indirect evidence that tends to establish a conclusion by inference: Compare direct evidence
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