Sentences with phrase «of irrelevant evidence»

Her research indicated that the biggest problems are submitting argument instead of evidence, inclusion of irrelevant evidence, omitting non-expert relevant evidence, and poor organization.
«Use of Irrelevant Evidence of «Goth» Lifestyle Leads to Reversal of Murder Conviction Main Website Asks «What's Your Price» to Go Out on a Date With Someone?»

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A wave of confirmation bias, combined with an inattention to evidence of weakness in Clinton's support, mixed in with too much coverage of irrelevant sideshows like the Clinton email «scandal.»
This non-sense of claiming that the Hebrew calendar is irrelevant to science and the «theory» of evolution is just another pig - rear false statement with no quantifiable evidence to back that up.
Although scriptural evidence is irrelevant in Congress, its importance to followers of Jesus is self - evident.
Wait a minute there, so I made the initial comment that the bible has been debunked, making it irrelevant in terms of evidence to support claimes.
Anyway, the whole thing is irrelevant as in thousands of years of searching, not a shred of evidence has ever been recorded that shows there are any gods.
Those who, as you say «put their faith in science» are doing nothing of the sort — there is no act of faith involved — on the contrary the evidence presented (such as in the case of the age of the Earth or the Universe) stands or falls strictly on its scientific merit: «Faith» is irrelevant.
A Christian case against these developments seems unlikely, on present evidence, to be put with any coherence or conviction by anyone but Catholics: so of course, it will be thought that «religious objections» are obscurantist and irrelevant.
But really when all's said and done, it's because there is no evidence to support what you say, but there is tons of it to support what I say, that leads you to conclude that evidence is irrelevant.
Or is it irrelevant, something like saying that there is «no evidence» that Minkee blankets are warm because they haven't been specifically evaluated in a lab even though lots of other, similar blankets are warm?
He added that the government «may need help from the legislature and the judges to avoid the agencies being swamped with irrelevant requests», stressing «we have to find a way» to allow for the admission of wiretap evidence in court.
Is there any evidence of pre-booked TV studios or as with the comments about expelling the Scottish Labour Party, do we need to take it that evidence of the allegation is irrelevant and we simply go into fantasy land?
Show us evidence of a substantial Green support for FPTP and it will still be irrelevant.
In trying to keep evidence of the affairs out of court, Silver's defense attorneys, Steven Molo and Joel Cohen, called prosecutors» filings a «transparent attempt to smear Mr. Silver's personal character before the jury with irrelevant and tawdry gossip.»
It is irrelevant because we know that the body of scientific evidence tells us that the healthiest diet for people * today * is to eat a whole plant food diet with b12 supplement.
Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.
That the evidence is often weak, misleading, or irrelevant is a serious problem, but at least the action is on the right field of play.
Recently, they have shifted their ground to claim that the hockey stick is an irrelevant distraction because there is a wealth of other evidence supporting their views.
Accusations of corrupt fossil fuel industry influence over skeptic climate scientists are irrelevant material — worthless — in the absence of any physical evidence (full context document scans, undercover video / audio transcripts, leaked emails, money - transfer receipts) proving such skeptics were paid and orchestrated to lie about the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming.
Please understand that by creating a catch - all label like this, you quite literally are moving the entire discussion outside of the realm of science, where evidence and arguments are considered and weighed independent of the humans that advance them, where our desire to see one or another result proven are (or should be) irrelevant, where people weigh the difficulty of the problem being addressed as an important contributor (in a Bayesian sense) to how much we should believe any answer proposed — so far, into the realm where people do not think at all!
I am just presenting evidence that the small change in CO2 caused by man is irrelevant... and in fact may have caused a drop in the RATE of warming.
Yet, throughout the program, this 1,000 year «irrelevant» temperature graph was shown as the only evidence of global warming.
Brandon often conflates an irrelevant quote regarding some physics pertaining to the direct affects of CO2, having nothing to do with the point made or the evidence against CAGW.
The paper has been debunked as wishful thinking and statistical failures (particularly embarrassing if you're trying to overturn statistical evidence) that rely heavily and uncritically on biased sources and is coated with an irrelevant layer of political posturing.
the practice of making accusations of disloyalty, especially of pro-Communist activity, in many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.
Yet as «evidence» you trot out a trend since 1994 [neatly explained by decrease of CFCs, so really irrelevant].
But Climate Progress doesn't quite think so and opines that it would be better for Hansen to stick to what he knows best, the science of climate change, and stay clear of policy — where because, through his consistent opposition to the sort of compromise that is a «core component our of political process» as evidenced by his lack of support for cap - and - trade, he «renders himself irrelevant
That there is no supporting evidence is apparently irrelevant — just one more case of dismissing all that is known about climate in favour of something for which there is an absence of evidence.
Via Siouxsie Law I came across an interesting recent opinion of the Supreme Court of Georgia that reversed a murder conviction because the trial court allowed the prosecution to introduce «irrelevant and highly prejudicial character evidence» about a teenage defendant's «goth» lifestyle.
However, eight of those reasons were circumstances that arose after the commencement of the action and were thus irrelevant to the analysis (the defendant's offer to settle; the defendant's failure to apply to move the action to the Small Claims Court; the defendant's denial of liability for the plaintiff's injury; the insurer's characterization of the collision as low impact; the exchange of 60 documents; the defendant's motion for a Rule 66 hearing and eventual removal; a Rule 28 examination of a witness; and the absence of expert evidence tendered by the defendant).
According to counsel for the Applicants, this evidence was completely irrelevant to the legal question (the Canadian constitutionality) of the impugned provision.
In particular, the notion of an «original» document, as contemplated by the «best evidence» rule, was not helpful in the electronic world, being either meaningless or irrelevant to the purpose of the rule.
The «evidence» I've seen so far on this consists of the four lawyers in this article who say they did gain new clients from Twitter; an old report that lawyer Adrian Dayton picked up a «major legal client» on Twitter; and dozens of examples of lawyers who made connections, received speaking engagements and so on that I hereby deem to be irrelevant to this particular inquiry.
The Panel was of the view that because it did not have jurisdiction over those employees outside of the bargaining unit, such evidence was irrelevant.
Actual words of LAT adjudicators: «The Supreme Court of Canada Pintea v Johns is irrelevant» (LAT ordered Tarion and BUILDER to comply with rules and provide evidence and submissions — BEFORE the FINAL hearing) Of course they did notof LAT adjudicators: «The Supreme Court of Canada Pintea v Johns is irrelevant» (LAT ordered Tarion and BUILDER to comply with rules and provide evidence and submissions — BEFORE the FINAL hearing) Of course they did notof Canada Pintea v Johns is irrelevant» (LAT ordered Tarion and BUILDER to comply with rules and provide evidence and submissions — BEFORE the FINAL hearing) Of course they did notOf course they did not.)
At some point in time, it is time to abandon ship, thus rendering the part of bargain about satisfying work entirely «irrelevant» as we were taught in Evidence.
Equally, a great deal of the evidence is irrelevant, unhelpful or clearly self - serving and, therefore, of questionable reliability.
Rather than equating the FSA's reliance on the privileged material with the public law concept of taking into account an irrelevant matter, the judge held that it was more accurate to consider the error as equivalent to a judicial or administrative body acting, in part, on inadmissible evidence.
Modern e-discovery is fraught with the risks of irrelevant data, poor custodial practices, evidence spoliation, bloated processing costs, and expensive review.
It is irrelevant because digital records are comprised of «pure information» and can be modified without creating any evidence of change (metadata aside).
There will not be any evidence proving the truth of this assumption, therefore, any opinions that are based on the partial tear as the primary assumption must be considered irrelevant and inadmissible.
Pattis & Smith criminal attorneys will quickly identify every imperfection in the case against you and defense activities include an immediate demand for every detail of the case against you; we assign investigators to review the credibility of witnesses, we ask the court to exclude irrelevant evidence or evidence gathered in violation of your rights, and package your background profile to maximize the chance of dismissal or reduction charges you're facing.
That said, the court also found that the mother's behaviour was not without fault, as a significant amount of her evidence was deemed to be irrelevant or mostly unhelpful in coming to a conclusion on the issues that were decided.
The onus — not a heavy one — is on the person seeking to limit disclosure, to adduce evidence that satisfies the court that the document in question is likely to be irrelevant to the proof of a material fact.
The Court of Appeal affirmed, following the Federal Court of Appeal's decision in Apotex Inc. v. Allergan Inc., 2016 FCA 155, that «Evidence of the actual state of mind or subjective intention of the parties is irrelevant to the existence of a valid contract and its terms» (See para. 35).
It followed in this case then, that Justice Hood only analyzed the evidence that pointed to the transferor's actual intention behind the investment account, rather than the irrelevant evidence) surrounding the common intention of both parties.
In Georgia, Motions in Limine can be filed as late as the morning of trial and they are aimed at preventing the other side from using improper arguments or introducing irrelevant evidence during the trial.
The effect is known as «trivial persuasion» because by inclusion of a trivial or irrelevant but highly specific detail the perceived credibility of the evidence is markedly raised.
Rule 9 - 1 (5) and 9 - 1 (6) were not intended, in my view, to punish parties merely because the party's assessment of the value of the claim proves incorrect, unless that assessment was based on irrelevant considerations; a clearly inadequate review of the available evidence and applicable authorities, or was, in view of the facts known at the time, unreasonable.
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