Evidence

Also known as Michael Perretta, Michael Taylor Perretta

American MC, producer, and member of the rap group Dilated Peoples

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Confessions to persons other than police officers or persons employed primarily for the detection or prevention of crime or in consequence of statutory compulsory process
Court witnesses
Availability of prosecution evidence for the defence
Impeaching one's own witnesses

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“When the afflicted do mean and intend only the appearance and shape of such an one, say G. Proctor, yet they positively swear that G. Proctor did afflict them; and they were allowed to do so; as though there was no real difference between G. Proctor and the shape of G. Proctor.”
“The S.G. [Salem Gentlemen] will by no means allow, that any are brought in guilty, and condemned, by virtue of spectre Evidence... but whether it is not purely by virtue of these spectre evidences, that these persons are found guilty, (considering what before has been said,) I leave you, and any man of sense, to judge and determine.”
“The court may exclude relevant evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by a danger of one or more of the following: unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue delay, wasting time, or needlessly presenting cumulative evidence.”
“A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence", and "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.”
“That said, the lack of proof against something does not count as evidence for it.”
“The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”