Sample sentences for CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE

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evidence that can suggest something, but does not prove it

She argued that the accusations against her client were based on the worst kind of circumstantial evidence.

circumstantial evidence = evidence that can suggest something, but does not prove it

The appeals court found that the circumstantial evidence was not sufficient for a guilty verdict.

circumstantial evidence = evidence that can suggest something, but does not prove it

We don't know, but there is circumstantial evidence to indicate that Mayella Ewell was beaten savagely by someone who led almost exclusively with his left.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

circumstantial evidence = evidence that can suggest something, but does not prove it

"But lots of folks have been hung— hanged— on circumstantial evidence," said Jem.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

circumstantial evidence = evidence that can suggest something, but does not prove it

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.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

circumstantial evidence = evidence that can suggest something, but does not prove it

There is only circumstantial evidence that Personnel $2222 contacted Adversaries regarding location of Witness $599-6.
Robert Cormier -- I Am the Cheese
Circumstantial evidence was never stronger.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
A grieving family hammered by cops, circumstantial evidence, and three women with their throats cut open.
J.D. Robb -- Glory in Death
Pete Earley's book Circumstantial Evidence was published a few months after Walter was freed, and it provided a detailed account of the case.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
IN SPITE OF ALMOST OVERWHELMING CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
Circumstantial evidence makes it probable that it was not different in this particular from the two others.
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
As for the charge of arson, the case has been founded on purely circumstantial evidence.
Dave Pelzer -- The Lost Boy
How did one find the truth beyond all suspicion, beyond all circumstantial evidence?
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
We've got enough circumstantial evidence to get a conviction.
Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
It was granted that this was plenty good enough circumstantial evidence.
Mark Twain -- Pudd'nhead Wilson
Lincoln admitted that they were based on circumstantial evidence. slave nation.
Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
That was serious circumstantial evidence.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Played with Fire
I had no fear, therefore, that any circumstantial evidence could be brought forward strong enough to convict her.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
Often, how louder and clearer than any tongue, does dumb circumstantial evidence speak.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
If ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so here.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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