Evidence Quotes

“Try if you can trap him in any question.”

“Circumstantial evidence only raises a probability.”

“Hearsay evidence is always to be received with caution.”

“Some instances of strength of memory are very surprising.”

“I cannot go upon suspicion; I can only look at the evidence.”

“A general fishing cross-examination ought not to be permitted.”

“Human nature constitutes a part of the evidence in every case.”

“You must answer any questions that are not ensnaring questions.”

“The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, or vice versa.”

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

“I can only recommend to you not to break in upon parts of the evidence.”

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“Artificial rules upon matters of evidence are better avoided as far as possible.”

“That said, the lack of proof against something does not count as evidence for it.”

“I think that reading parts of evidence given in a former case is not a legal course.”

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“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”

“.... A good corroborating chain, if they fail in the last link, the whole will fall to the ground.”

“Sitting in a Court of law, I can receive no evidence but what comes under the sanction of an oath.”

“Testis oculatus unus plus valet quam auriti decem: One eye-witness is worth more than ten ear-witnesses.”