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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purely https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purely > wholly, exclusively. a selection based purely on merit
by RandoHolmes 6y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purely https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purely
> wholly, exclusively. a selection based purely on merit
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> A popular misconception is that circumstantial evidence is less valid or less important than direct evidence
because you know ... knowing that a person's phone was in the vicinity at a specific time in a specific area is as strong as a video of person A killing person B.
Such a common "misconception".
Furthermore, we know that people get wrongly convicted. We know this because they get exonerated down the road. It's also a tautology. "It's ok to use circumstantial evidence to get convictions because the legal system currently uses circumstantial evidence to get convictions".
Some of us don't want to go to jail because we happened to be driving through the wrong place at the wrong time.
- tantalor 6y ago> a video of person A killing person B Usually this would be circumstantial evidence because you have to infer it was actually person A and B in the video, and it actually depicted the murder. There could be alternative explanations, such as "that was my twin" or "we were performing a murder on stage". Indeed, the common metaphor for the strongest possible evidence in any case—the "smoking gun"—is an example of proof based on circumstantial evidence Similarly, fingerprint evidence, videotapes, sound recordings, photographs, and many other examples of physical evidence that support the drawing of an inference, i.e., circumstantial evidence, are considered very strong possible evidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstantial_evidence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstantial_evidence
- tantalor 6y agoLegal Eagle's latest video contradicts this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2kEGj-S1Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2kEGj-S1Tc