Testimony is Evidence

[Thumpalumpacus]

Neither of those links works for me; they deliver "page not found" messages.

Ironic, considering the topic of this thread.

Sorry about that.

https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/can-o...24282.html
https://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/-so-i...17488.html

So you've got some quotes from lawyers online regarding the pertinacity of testimony as evidence. And as I've said myself, sometimes testimony can be evidence.

Now reread my first post in this thread: when I got home from work today, I saw an invisible dragon in my garage. You clearly had a problem with it, and even raised a cogent objection ... but you just never did make the last mile, which is to understand that some testimony under some circumstances is evidential, most testimony will need to be backed up by physical evidence, and some testimony is utter shit.

Carrying the point forward a bit further, if testimony needs support from physical or forensic evidence, what does that say about its place in evidentiary proceedings? TGB rightly notes that while convictions based on testimony have been thrown out based on DNA exonerations (oh dear, physical evidence!), none based on physical evidence have been thrown out based on testimony.

That should tell you something about the hierarchy of evidence.