When the Government rests its case solely on the approximations and circumstantial inferences of a net worth computation, the cogency of its proof depends upon its effective negation of reasonable explanations by the taxpayer inconsistent with guilt.
"Because the government didn't have that" — a cooperating witness with knowledge of a conspiracy — "they relied on circumstantial evidence, on inferences and ultimately appealed to the jurors' common sense".
Mr Oneissi's defence team says the case is based on circumstantial evidence and inferences drawn from it.
The issue was important because job bias is often hidden; proving it depends on inference and circumstantial evidence.
Judge Lodge's ruling affirms a June decision by United States Magistrate Mikel Williams that stated: "The circumstantial evidence supports the inference that al-Kidd may have been detained for reasons in addition to securing his testimony at trial".
Evidence of their motives was largely circumstantial, and dependent on inferences from casual relationships with the immediate tippees.
But limiting inferences from circumstantial evidence, unlike a hard and fast pecuniary gain requirement, would permit further factual inquiry where, despite a loose existing relationship, an insider gift-giver could be seeking a closer relationship, recognition, psychological benefit, or the possibility of a future tangible gain.
It has been inferred that the likely cause was harmful T-cell response, but the data supporting this inference are only circumstantial.
What the jury of eight blacks, two non-Jewish whites and two Guyanese-Americans decides after they get the case today may depend on how comfortable they feel drawing inferences from the circumstantial evidence before them.
However, surprising candidates such as non-perception (for knowledge of absences) and circumstantial implication (defended as distinct from inference) provoke complex arguments especially in the later texts from about 1000 when the number of Sanskrit philosophical works of some of the schools begins to proliferate almost exponentially.
