Sentences with phrase «circumstantial evidence showed»

But prosecutors argued — and, apparently, persuaded jurors — that circumstantial evidence showed implicit threats and understandings as part of the «Skelos shake down playbook.»

The court explained that while it is the plaintiff's duty to prove that the gun was not altered after it left the manufacturer's control, there was circumstantial evidence showing just that.

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But those claims largely rely on circumstantial evidence, including Julian Assange's short - lived talk show on Russia's state - controlled RT network.

He recalled that in the one case that perhaps came closest — the show - trial conviction of several influential military and intelligence officers for drug trafficking and other crimes in 1989 — there was even some circumstantial evidence that the illicit activities had been tolerated by superiors.

The second category he calls «circumstantial evidence ``, which, if he was shown any of these, might cause him to rethink his position even if he doesn't convert: a genuinely flawless and consistent holy book; a religion without internal disputes or factions; a religion who's followers have never committed or taken part in atrocities; a religion that had a consistent record of winning its jihads and holy wars.

As we have seen, the story about the women at the tomb, on the showing of the authors themselves, circumstantial as it is, remains inconclusive as evidence apart from further verification.

I'm open to evidence of various sorts, but I stiil want evidence, including any mass of circumstantial evidence, to be such that if God were false, the evidence could not show logically that God is true and, if God is true, the evidence can not show that God is false.

Other experienced lawyers aren't sure the argument will get far, noting that the charges tracked the requirements the Supreme Court has set out so far for corruption cases, and showing an implicit understanding with circumstantial evidence is not an exotic theory of bribery.

He says there is a lot of circumstantial evidence that methylation plays a causal role in cancer but this seems to be the first time that someone has shown that it can be a primary cause of tumours.

«I believe that the government will be able to show at trial direct evidence that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of ebooks, and that the circumstantial evidence in this case, including the terms of the agreements, will confirm that,» Cote said, according to published reports.

For example, understanding that global warming is not a proven science and that there is no circumstantial evidence for global warming alarmism — which is why we see goats like political charlatans like Al Gore showing debunked graphs like the «hockey stick» to scare the folks — and, not understanding that climate change the usual thing not the unusual thing and that the climate change we observed can be explained by natural causes is the only thing that really separates we the people from superstitious and ignorant government - funded schoolteachers on the issue of global warming... that and the fact that global warming alarmists do not believe in the scientific method nor most of the principles upon which the country was founded.

Further adultery can be «proven» through circumstantial evidence by showing both inclination and opportunity to commit adultery.

While it is accepted that racial profiling occurs, it will rarely be shown by direct evidence, the defense must normally rely on circumstantial evidence to support its claim.