A: Circumstantial evidence does not directly prove an element of the alleged misconduct, but provides information from which ...

This experiment tested the ability of undergraduate mock jurors (N = 295) to draw appropriate conclusions from statistical data on the diagnostic value of forensic evidence. Jurors read a summary of a ...

A Florida federal court judge oversteps her bounds by deciding that a jury need not get the chance to infer from the evidence it heard, that a baby was catapulted from her car seat because the seat ...

Almost a century ago, Justice Louis Brandeis recognized that “[s]ilence is often evidence of the most persuasive character.” Bilokumsky v. Tod, 263 U.S. 149, 153 (1923). In civil litigation that ...

The Constitution defines impeachment as a civil proceeding before the Senate. Its noncriminal nature means the principles of evidence that will govern federal civil trials offer a number of wise and ...

Decision making often requires simultaneously learning about and combining evidence from various sources of information. However, when making inferences from these sources, humans show systematic ...

This article resulted from our participation in the session on the “role of expert opinion and judgment in statistical inference” at the October 2017 ASA Symposium on Statistical Inference. We present ...

Minnesota Supreme Court justices heard arguments for a second time Wednesday in Nicholas Firkus’ appeal of his murder conviction, focusing on aspects of circumstantial evidence presented at trial. A ...