Justice Alito objected that settling on profits as the correct definition "introduces pointless and difficult problems of proof".
"While every case has its inconsistencies and problems of proof," Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, said at the time, "the evidence in this case is so fraught with errors, misstatements, changed statements and memory failures, it is impossible to prosecute".
"While every case has its inconsistencies and problems of proof," Mr. Hynes said, "the evidence in this case is so fraught with errors, misstatements, changed statements and memory failures, it is impossible to prosecute".
A forum for resolving disputes would face difficult problems of proof and standards of decision.
The proofs of our results are both interesting and difficult, and the problems of proof of these results are difficult to be solved by means of the existing probability and statistics theories.
However, as he continued to review the evidence, he found serious problems of proof, including an instance where an illiterate Afghani juvenile was being prosecuted on the basis of his "confession" written in a language he did not speak.
The minutes of the meeting said that a trial would be difficult because of the problem of getting proof without increasing the scandal.
This time there was no problem of providing proof of his misdeed, and in 1993 he was sentenced to six years in prison; not enough, said some, but at least he had not eluded justice entirely.Perhaps Erich Mielke was himself impressed that his police file had survived through more than 60 years of war and peace, passed on from regime to regime.
An article in Quanta from last year goes into more detail on the problem of computer proofs in general: "Zeilberger...has been listing Ekhad as a co-author on papers since the late 1980s 'to make a statement that computers should get credit where credit is due.'"Can couples get stuck together during sex? (BBC).
