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arsonists depend, therefore, on circumstantial, evidence, he said.
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To this typical juror, circumstantial evidence has an unfavorable Connotation, Baumgardner acknowledged. He maintained, however, that most courtroom decisions are based largely on circumstantial evidence. As an example, he related, if an individual sees two men in a field, one with a gun pointing at the other, hears a shot, sees smoke from the gun barrel and sees one of the two men fall, the witness assumes he has direct evidence that the first man shot the second. But that’s circumstantial evidence, Baumgardner told the jury. The witness saw certain events which led to conclusion that the first man had shot the second, he explained.
Returning to specifics, Baumgardner pointed out die 45 minute difference in the time witnesses say they saw Martin in Sperryville and the time at which the defendant said he arrived. He em
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