"tainted evidence" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used in legal or forensic contexts to refer to evidence that has been compromised or influenced in some way, making it unreliable or less credible. Example: The defense argued that the prosecution's case was based on tainted evidence, as the key witness had a history of giving false testimonies. Another example: The judge declared a mistrial due to the discovery of tainted evidence that had been illegally obtained by the police.
That severely tainted evidence most likely would also have been excluded in a military trial.
Restivo's lawyer argued that the police had submitted tainted evidence, but the prosecution was unfazed.
A new investigation into the death of the American journalist Daniel Pearl says that the British jihadist jailed for his murder is likely to be released because Pakistani officials used tainted evidence.
The risk of facing tainted evidence was at the core of Mr. Othman's battle to remain in Britain, and led, under British pressure, to Jordan's agreeing to new constitutional guarantees, and to the presence aboard the aircraft carrying him to Jordan of representatives of a Jordanian rights organization, the Adaleh Center for Human Rights.
A3 Conviction Reversed in Ireland A Dublin appeals court overturned the conviction of Colm Murphy, the only person jailed in connection with a 1998 car bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 29 people, saying the trial court failed to fully address tainted evidence.
Mr Nasar is widely reported to have been arrested in Pakistan and handed over to the Americans, but he does not figure on any list of detainees.Hamed Abderrahaman Ahmad, a Spaniard sentenced to six years in prison for membership of al-Qaeda, had his conviction overturned by the Spanish courts in 2006 in part because it had been based on possibly tainted evidence gathered at Guantánamo.
The court said any trial there would be tainted by evidence obtained from another person by torture.
The government was further tainted by evidence that it had employed death squads to assassinate a number of Basque separatist guerrillas in France between 1983 and 1987.
The individuals responsible for investigating, prosecuting and adjudicating his actions have lied in court, ignored conflicts of interest and irrevocably tainted the evidence against him.
Now let's check in on Guantánamo Bay, where President George W. Bush opened an illegal detention camp, authorized torture and abuse, and then set up military tribunals engineered to produce guilty verdicts no matter how thin or tainted the evidence.
When Mr. Mohammed was moved to Guantánamo Bay, finally, with the four others, there were immediate questions about whether they could ever be tried legitimately, given how tainted the evidence was.
