circumstantial evidence

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von circumstantial evidence im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch: ikinci derecede deliller; huk. ikinci derecede kanıt; ikinci derecede kanıt; emare; (Kanun) ikinci derecede delil
indirect evidence: (Konuşma Dili) ikinci derecede kanıt

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von circumstantial evidence im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: Evidence not bearing directly on the fact in dispute but on various attendant circumstances from which the judge or jury might infer the occurrence of the fact in dispute. In law, evidence that is drawn not from direct observation of a fact at issue but from events or circumstances that surround it. If a witness arrives at a crime scene seconds after hearing a gunshot to find someone standing over a corpse and holding a smoking pistol, the evidence is circumstantial, since the person may merely be a bystander who picked up the weapon after the killer dropped it. The popular notion that one cannot be convicted on circumstantial evidence is false. Most criminal convictions are based, at least in part, on circumstantial evidence that sufficiently links criminal and crime; evidence which shows a relation to other evidence and not directly to the crime itself; evidence providing only a basis for inference about the fact in dispute; indirect evidence