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Circumstantial evidence PDF Print E-mail
Evidence which may allow a Judge or Jury to deduce a certain fact from other facts that have been proven. In some cases, there can be some evidence that cannot be proven directly, such as with an eyewitness. And yet that evidence may be essential to prove a case. In these cases, the Advocate will provide the Judge or Juror with evidence of the circumstances from which a Juror or Judge can logically deduct, or reasonably infer, the fact that cannot be proven directly (in other words, it is proven by the evidence of the circumstances). Fingerprints are an example of circumstantial evidence: while there may be no witness to a person's presence in a certain place, or contact with a certain object, the scientific evidence of someone's fingerprints is persuasive proof of a person's presence or contact with an object.