Accepting as valid the testimony of an amateur archaeologist codenamed "Ben Hammott" relating to his discoveries made in the vicinity of Rennes-le-Château since 1999; Burgess claims Ben has found the treasure of Bérenger Saunière: a mummified corpse, which they believe is Mary Magdalene, in an underground tomb they claim is connected to both the Knights Templar and the Priory of Sion.
It was a novel approach, Mr. Twerski said, taking advantage of a 1993 Supreme Court decision allowing courts to determine, before a trial, whether plaintiffs' claims and expert testimony were valid or just "junk science".
Lee Bowyer, then at Leeds United, was a picture of relaxation, too, when he swaggered daily into his own assault and affray trial at Hull seven years back, minus socks for the purposes of convincing the jury that a piece of his personal testimony was valid.
A state forensic science commission in Texas is officially looking into the case and selected a widely respected expert to analyze whether the forensic testimony was valid.
The judge presiding over the case dismissed the charges because Icardi's testimony had no "valid legislative purpose".
Without him, her testimony would not be legally valid.
Verbal testimony, in order to be valid, must be the word of one who has authoritative knowledge.
As ways of valid knowing, the Bhattas recognized perception, inference, verbal testimony (shabda), comparison (upamana), postulation (arthapatti), and nonperception (anupalabdhi).
Four means of valid knowledge are admitted: perception, inference, comparison, and verbal testimony.
The school of logic, Nyaya, accepts verbal testimony, both human and divine, as a valid means of knowledge but notes that only the divine knowledge of the Vedas is infallible.
