Sentences with phrase «using circumstantial evidence»

The Supreme Court has ruled that the jury overstepped its bounds in using circumstantial evidence to convict the defendant, CO2.

The Commonwealth can use circumstantial evidence to prove that the defendant knew the goods were stolen.

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Scans of the sky using visible light, X-rays, and electromagnetic waves have been insufficient, says astrophysicist and LIGO data analyst Vicky Kalogera, because they only provide circumstantial evidence of how black holes warp the light and space near them.

«I can't say it's definitely from the drilling, but there's strong circumstantial evidence,» French said, referring to nearby natural gas drilling using fracking.

This evidence is entirely circumstantial, and there's an innocent explanation for the traffic patterns that Foer identified: that the Trump Organization used an email marketing service to send out promotional emails about Trump's hotels, and some of these emails went to Alfa Bank — perhaps because Alfa Bank employees have stayed at Trump hotels.

It is not at all unusual for historians to have to content themselves with unobjective accounts of an event and to make use of circumstantial evidence to confirm or disprove these accounts.

And at Silver's retrial, prosecutors say all the activities that may no longer be official acts — meetings with lobbyists, helping Taub set up a mesothelioma charity race and find jobs for his kids, using official letterhead to oppose a methadone clinic near a Glenwood property — can still be put before the jury as «circumstantial evidence.»

Stoecker says that there has been circumstantial evidence that dinoflagellates use their toxins to capture prey, but notes that Sheng's work is «pretty cool» because of the detailed visualizations and quantitative data.

Wild bumble bees (Bombus spp.) have also suffered serious declines and circumstantial evidence suggests that pathogen «spillover» from commercially reared bumble bees, which are used extensively to pollinate greenhouse crops, is a possible cause.

The side scan sonar equipment used to image the bottom of the Gulf may have been faulty, and the claimed supporting evidence is purely circumstantial.

Then they used inference (i.e. created knowledge) from circumstantial (e.g. outside the limited scientific domain) evidence to establish a baseline, which may be generally representative or merely an isolated sample from evolutionary processes (i.e. chaotic).

We understand that you berated our nominator at some length following the article for utilising anecdotal and circumstantial evidence, even though such data - for example allegorical paintings by Breughel - are frequently used by scientists such as Phil Jones and Professor Brian Fagan to usefully illustrate the deterioration in the climate in the 16th century.

«One single proof» is a deceptive rhetorical flourish used primarily by denialists designed to apparently negate a preponderance of circumstantial evidence by claiming that without a specific key proof, the whole argument is invalid.

The first thing you should do when facing DUI charges and / or a license suspension is contact a Chicago DUI attorney who can use his experience in analyzing chemical, physical, and circumstantial evidence to achieve the best possible result for your case.

It follows that the evidence of vehicle damage was relevant on this issue and the trial judge did not err in instructing the jury that they could use it as circumstantial evidence.

Circumstantial evidence was also used to authenticate the photographs.

The majority stated at para 38 that the inference of causation can be made through merely circumstantial evidence, meaning the use of «positive evidence» from the Board's policy can include inconclusive or even contrary expert evidence.

Energous is the company behind WattUp, an emerging wireless charging technology that uses radio frequencies to charge devices from up to 15 feet away.Though there's no concrete proof of a relationship between Energous and Apple, a new research report from Louis Basenese of Disruptive Tech Research highlights a large pool of circumstantial evidence pointing towards a potential partnership, so it's worth taking a look at Energous's technology, both in that context and as an example of the wireless charging techniques that are currently being pursued by tech companies.Basenese posits