Indirect evidence is aka circumstantial evidence. Many folks are in prison solely based on circumstantial evidence.
The classic example of circumstantial evidence is: if you go to bed with no snow on the ground and wake up with your yard covered in snow, that is circumstantial evidence of it snowing overnight. A smoking gun is circumstantial evidence. A video of the gun shooting someone is direct evidence.
In a conspiracy case there is rarely direct evidence, per one former federal prosecutor this morning.
When the facts come out from the Mueller report and the Congressional reports, what will be the burden of proof standard to which Trump is held? Obviously in any criminal trial it will be beyond a reasonable doubt.
However in a Senate impeachment trial and the court of public opinion will it be a criminal standard or civil standard, a preponderance of the evidence?
The classic example of circumstantial evidence is: if you go to bed with no snow on the ground and wake up with your yard covered in snow, that is circumstantial evidence of it snowing overnight. A smoking gun is circumstantial evidence. A video of the gun shooting someone is direct evidence.
In a conspiracy case there is rarely direct evidence, per one former federal prosecutor this morning.
When the facts come out from the Mueller report and the Congressional reports, what will be the burden of proof standard to which Trump is held? Obviously in any criminal trial it will be beyond a reasonable doubt.
However in a Senate impeachment trial and the court of public opinion will it be a criminal standard or civil standard, a preponderance of the evidence?
