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🗓️ 16 September 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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51-year-old Ruth Pyne is found beaten and stabbed to death in the garage of her home in Highland Township, Michigan. Her immediate family members become the focus of the investigation, and one of them has a questionable alibi.
Indirect evidence begins to pile up, and a jury is left with the following question: at what point does circumstantial evidence overcome reasonable doubt?
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2:13.3 | In any criminal case evidence is typically divided into categories |
2:26.3 | First, there's direct evidence the type of evidence that directly ties a suspect to the commission of a crime |
2:33.9 | For example, testimony from someone who witnessed a defendant robbing a bank |
2:39.0 | Then there's circumstantial evidence which requires interpretation |
2:45.0 | If a witness spotted a defendant a few blocks away from the scene of a bank robbery carrying a sack of money |
2:51.0 | Their testimony would be considered circumstantial evidence because it doesn't quite fill in all the blanks |
2:57.0 | There's a common myth that circumstantial evidence is somehow weak or unreliable |
3:02.0 | But that's not exactly true |
3:05.0 | Purpose traders are often convicted based solely on circumstantial evidence |
3:11.0 | There just has to be enough of it to persuade a jury of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt |
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