"The charges against me are spurious and without cover of any admissible documents". She is facing her first formal charge in Pakistan after months of inquiry in Britain and Switzerland.
Hamilton wrote this letter to Harrison Otis, another prominent lawyer and Federalist, advising on whether a particular document would be admissible as evidence in an ongoing lawsuit related to an insurance claim following the seizure of a trade ship by the Portuguese off the coast of Brazil.
Superintendent Tony Thompson of British transport police said: "If certain key documents aren't admissible, it tears the heart out of any potential prosecution".
In her ruling, Judge DiPentima agreed with defense lawyers that some of the information in the documents might not be admissible at trial.
Rules of evidence made it nearly impossible to prove that the invention and figures originated in the U.S., because e-mail and electronic documents are not considered admissible reliable evidence in China.
The method of Anglo-American law in this particular area is consequently negative, since evidence outside the content of the document is in principle not admissible.
It's a damning document that likely isn't admissible in this case.
Reasonable errors in writs and legal documents are evidences of human frailty, admissible in the prosecution and flattering to the defendant, who quashes them and clears his client.
It shall adopt and apply to the greatest possible extent expeditious and non-technical procedure, and shall admit any evidence that it deems to have probative value". I do submit that even if you were to find, and I find it hard to think that you would, that this is not a document within the meaning of Article 21, it is admissible under Article 19.
For example, any statement or document provided to a truth commission would not be admissible in court.
Belgium's Court of Appeal has since ruled that documents seized in such raids should not be admissible in any trial.
