Circumstantial evidence is rarely enough to establish guilt.
Because throughout the trial the prosecution bears the onus of establishing guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
Nick Wood, a practising barrister, says that the spread of technology has created exciting new ways of establishing guilt.
In civil matters, the ruling generally favors the strongest case, and does not have to establish guilt beyond reasonable doubt.
Moreover and this is the real joker some of these defenses could be used to establish guilt by association.
"Evidence will be considered more than sufficient by prosecutors if it establishes guilt and questionable or insufficient if it established innocence".
The court-martial would then go forward in two stages, one to establish guilt or innocence, and a second to determine sentencing.
BOSSO, Niger — For the soldiers, the young men's long, flowing robes — the traditional garb of Muslim West Africa — were enough to establish guilt, the refugees said.
"I think the existence of DNA evidence, with its virtual near lock in establishing guilt or innocence, justifies looking at this again," he said.
Only such a trial can establish guilt and pronounce a verdict .Bruno Beagle gets to the point: "Please remind me as to NATO's policy on the validity of the passports of its troops in Afghanistan.
