circumstantial evidence
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It may be too much of a stretch to tie all these pieces of circumstantial evidence together to make a solid case for Rinderknecht’s prosecution, said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026
Like a criminal trial with no eyewitnesses, the prosecution of the “Queens of Combat” question relies on a cistern’s worth of circumstantial evidence, which may or may not add up to a case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026
“It is like circumstantial evidence in a Sherlock Holmes mystery,” said Slok.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
He has always denied the charges and, other than circumstantial evidence, investigators have struggled to build a case.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
We say that such Evidence-Indices is circumstantial evidence, where the legal understanding of ‘circumstantial’ essentially means ‘contextual’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
