Sentence examples for factual inference from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the jury will be overawed if it is told that some particular factual inference has been enshrined in an Act of Congress.

Because the specific factual inference recommended to the jury in this case is not one that is supported by the general experience of our society, I cannot say that the presumption charged is "more likely than not" to be true.

By speculating about what the jury may have done with the factual inference thrust upon it, the Court in effect assumes away the inference altogether, constructing a rule that permits the use of any inference—no matter how irrational in itself—provided that otherwise there is sufficient evidence in the record to support a finding of guilt.

We conclude that there is no support for any further factual inference than that petitioner was voicing strong criticism of Smith Act cases and the Government's manner of proving them, and that her references to the happenings at the Honolulu trial were illustrative of this, and not a reflection in any wise upon Judge Wiig personally or his conduct of the trial.

Ayer defined inductive inference in negative terms, as involving all factual inference in which the premises did not entail the conclusion.

Such meaning derives from social norms, patterns of outcomes, local practices and understandings, informal rules of factual inference, systems imperatives, community expectations, and so-called "public policies". Constraint strategies operate through case selection, record-making, legal planning, or media pressure.

The same would be true if the question turned on the proper factual inferences to be drawn from undisputed facts.

6 In addition, the Constitution restricts the court in its charge to the jury by requiring that, when particular factual inferences are recommended to the jury, those factual inferences be accurate reflections of what history, common sense, and experience tell us about the relations between events in our society.

We thus affirm the district court's conclusion that, after reading the factual inferences in the record in Northrup's favor, Officer Bright could not reasonably suspect that Northrup needed to be disarmed.

22. 2 The dissent, perhaps finding unappealing the Government's defense of unjustified taking, tenders factual inferences, post, at 5, both unfavorable to Williams and beyond the parties' stipulation of uncontroverted facts.

11 It is ironic that the Court seeks to justify its decision to draw factual inferences in the defendants' favor at the pleading stage by citing to a rule of evidence, ante, at 22, n. 13.