RE: Evidence to Convict?
August 5, 2017 at 12:18 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2017 at 12:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The amount of pages you've wasted tryng to maintan the credibility of testimony when the very standard you're referring to absolutely does -not- accept testimony in a vacuum as sufficient to convict is staggering.
If all the prosecution has on you is someone saying you did something - it won't even make it to trial. It doesn't even meet the basic requirements for litigation, you can forget about a conviction. This isn;t an opinion, or a philosophic position on the nature of evidence, or even debatable. It's a cut and dry answer to your question.
Witnesses are not called to -be- the facts of a case, but to support the facts of a case as established by the defense or prosecution. The police take those statements for precisely the same reason. They hope to find a narrative between respondants that matches the evidence available.
If all the prosecution has on you is someone saying you did something - it won't even make it to trial. It doesn't even meet the basic requirements for litigation, you can forget about a conviction. This isn;t an opinion, or a philosophic position on the nature of evidence, or even debatable. It's a cut and dry answer to your question.
Witnesses are not called to -be- the facts of a case, but to support the facts of a case as established by the defense or prosecution. The police take those statements for precisely the same reason. They hope to find a narrative between respondants that matches the evidence available.
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