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  • That was serious circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • A grieving family hammered by cops, circumstantial evidence, and three women with their throats cut open.†   (source)
  • We believe that British Intelligence has deliberately spun around Comrade Mundt a mesh of circumstantial evidence— the payment of money to foreign banks, its withdrawal to coincide with Mundt's presence in this or that country, the casual hearsay evidence from Peter Guillam, the secret meeting between Control and Riemeck at which matters were discussed that Leamas could not hear: these afl provided a spurious chain of evidence and Comrade Fiedler, on whose ambitions the British so accurately counted, accepted it; and thus he became party to a monstrous plot to destroy—to murder in fact, for Mundt now stands to lose his life—one of the most vigilant defenders of our Republic.†   (source)
  • There was a lot of circumstantial evidence, but actually those two witnesses were the entire case for the prosecution.†   (source)
  • "But lots of folks have been hung— hanged— on circumstantial evidence," said Jem.   (source)
  • We've got enough circumstantial evidence to get a conviction.   (source)
  • He said he didn't have any quarrel with the rape statute, none what ever, but he did have deep misgivings when the state asked for and the jury gave a death penalty on purely circumstantial evidence.   (source)
  • It sounds to me as though your suspicions are for the most part based on assumptions and circumstantial evidence.   (source)
  • What I do have is a web of circumstantial evidence so tightly woven that the defendant cannot possibly escape.   (source)
  • We've put away murderers on considerably weaker circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • The circumstantial evidence the police hold is very damaging to her.†   (source)
  • "I do not claim that this story is true, nor do I claim it is even a likely one at this point," Gerasimov said, keeping his voice detached and clinical, "but there is sufficient circumstantial evidence supporting it that I must recommend an in-depth investigation by the Committee for State Security touching on all aspects of this affair."†   (source)
  • Lincoln admitted that they were based on circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • IN SPITE OF ALMOST OVERWHELMING CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.†   (source)
  • If ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so here.†   (source)
  • Often, how louder and clearer than any tongue, does dumb circumstantial evidence speak.†   (source)
  • I haven't seen him, of course, but I go upon circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • How did one find the truth beyond all suspicion, beyond all circumstantial evidence?†   (source)
  • "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes thoughtfully.†   (source)
  • Circumstantial evidence was never stronger.†   (source)
  • It was granted that this was plenty good enough circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick.†   (source)
  • He swashed about (cautioned though he was to maintain silence concerning his past theatrical relationships) in such a selfconfident manner that he was like to convince every one of his identity by mere matter of circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • There have been many very pathetic and very terrible instances of miscarriages of justice through circumstantial evidence alone.†   (source)
  • And at the end of that time—in January, 19—, the Court of Appeals finding (Fulham, Jr., reviewing the evidence as offered by Belknap and Jephson)—with Kincaid, Briggs, Truman and Dobshutter concurring, that Clyde was guilty as decided by the Cataraqui County jury and sentencing him to die at some time within the week beginning February 28th or six weeks later—and saying in conclusion: "We are mindful that this is a case of circumstantial evidence and that the only eyewitness denies that death was the result of crime.†   (source)
  • Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.†   (source)
  • Even the Griffiths of Denver were so shaken by the evidence as the trial had progressed that they scarcely dared read the papers openly—one to the other—but, for the most part, read of it separately and alone, whispering together afterwards of the damning, awful deluge of circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • In his lay capacity, he persisted in sitting down in the damp to such an insane extent, that when his coat was taken off to be dried at the kitchen fire, the circumstantial evidence on his trousers would have hanged him, if it had been a capital offence.†   (source)
  • And do you suppose, from the character of our legal system, that they will accept, or that they are in a position to accept, this fact—resting simply on a psychological impossibility—as irrefutable and conclusively breaking down the circumstantial evidence for the prosecution?†   (source)
  • had another brass plate two sizes and a half smaller upon the left hand door-post, surrounding a brass model of an infant's fist grasping a fragment of a skewer, and displaying the word 'Office,' it was clear that Mr Ralph Nickleby did, or pretended to do, business of some kind; and the fact, if it required any further circumstantial evidence, was abundantly demonstrated by the diurnal attendance, between the hours of half-past nine and five, of a sallow-faced man in rusty brown, who sat upon an uncommonly hard stool in a species of butler's pantry at the end of the passage, and always had a pen behind his ear when he answered the bell.†   (source)
  • I had no fear, therefore, that any circumstantial evidence could be brought forward strong enough to convict her.†   (source)
  • "But," asked Madame Danglars, looking at her husband with uneasiness, "how could that prevent M. de Villefort"— "In this simple way, madame," replied Monte Cristo; "the waistcoat and the letter were both what is termed circumstantial evidence; I therefore sent them to the king's attorney.†   (source)
  • She really did not mean it, but the circumstantial evidence was against her, and Tom turned white with anger, but said nothing; he would have struck her, only he knew it was cowardly to strike a girl, and Tom Tulliver was quite determined he would never do anything cowardly.†   (source)
  • The profound astonishment with which her son regarded her during this long address, gradually increasing as it approached its climax in no way discomposed Mrs Nickleby, but rather exalted her opinion of her own cleverness; therefore, merely stopping to remark, with much complacency, that she had fully expected him to be surprised, she entered on a vast quantity of circumstantial evidence of a particularly incoherent and perplexing kind; the upshot of which was, to establish, beyond the possibility of doubt, that Mr Frank Cheeryble had fallen desperately in love with Kate.†   (source)
  • And if the ear-rings being found in Nikolay's hands at the very day and hour of the murder constitutes an important piece of circumstantial evidence against him—although the explanation given by him accounts for it, and therefore it does not tell seriously against him—one must take into consideration the facts which prove him innocent, especially as they are facts that cannot be denied.†   (source)
  • Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution.†   (source)
  • "That evidence," he observed, "was hardly required in so glaring a case, but I am glad of it, and, indeed, none of our judges like to condemn a criminal upon circumstantial evidence, be it ever so decisive."†   (source)
  • He said he would show by a chain of circumstantial evidence without break or fault in it anywhere, that the principal prisoner at the bar committed the murder; that the motive was partly revenge, and partly a desire to take his own life out of jeopardy, and that his brother, by his presence, was a consenting accessory to the crime; a crime which was the basest known to the calendar of huma†   (source)
  • Much stress has been laid upon the fact that the accused offered a very large reward for the knife with which this murder was done; that no thief came forward to claim that extraordinary reward; that the latter fact was good circumstantial evidence that the claim that the knife had been stolen was a vanity and a fraud; that these details taken in connection with the memorable and apparently prophetic speech of the deceased concerning that knife, and the final discovery of that very knife in the fatal room where no living person was found present with the slaughtered man but the owner of th†   (source)
  • Wilson said that he had three witnesses, the Misses Clarkson, who would testify that they met a veiled young woman leaving Judge Driscoll's premises by the back gate a few minutes after the cries for help were heard, and that their evidence, taken with certain circumstantial evidence which he would call the court's attention to, would in his opinion convince the court that there was still one person concerned in this crime who had not yet been found, and also that a stay of proceedings ought to be granted, in justice to his clients, until that person should be discovered.†   (source)
  • —O that, Stephen expostulated, has been proved conclusively by several of the bestknown passages in Holy Writ, apart from circumstantial evidence.†   (source)
  • Significances of similitude, of posture, of symbolism, of circumstantial evidence, of testimonial supermanence.†   (source)
  • Circumstantial evidence makes it probable that it was not different in this particular from the two others.†   (source)
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