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The testimony of witnesses, documentary evidence, expert statements and judicial decisions are mostly still secret.
Ronald J. Allen, a law professor and evidence expert at Northwestern University, put it this way: "Suppose somebody claims all the swans are white.
But first they will spend several hours listening to the judge's instructions, which will include definitions of the 18 counts in the indictment and other legal distinctions, like circumstantial evidence, direct evidence, expert witnesses and proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
The health evidence expert group advising the chief medical officers seems to have based its findings only on studies connecting alcohol consumption with specific risks or benefits, concluding that the proven links to harms are greater than those to gains.
The Los Angeles case "shows why it can be tremendously useful in cases that seem pretty dead and hard to crack," said Jennifer Mnookin, a law professor and evidence expert at the University of California, Los Angeles.
But even if the scientific basis of palm matching is questioned, Edward J. Imwinkelried, an evidence expert and professor at the School of Law at the University of California at Davis, said that judges will most likely still admit it as "nonscientific expertise," just as they have sometimes done with fingerprints.
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The heart disease story is also a lesson in scientific evidence, experts said.
There is evidence, experts say, that happier workforces are more committed to their jobs.
(And then his education minister, Simon Birmingham, tried to implausibly claim data showed the extra money would not make any difference – evidence experts described as "incredibly flimsy").
Because there is only one survivor of the events that night, the case against Mr. Pistorius will inevitably rely heavily on forensic and ballistic evidence, experts say.
And in the absence of conclusive evidence, experts advise caution.
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