Rob

I just got off the phone with my lawyer and he said that there are tons of convictions based on circumstantial evidence. Hell, Scott Peterson was convicted on circumstantial evidence alone.

There is precedent and I have more than enough evidence to move forward and I gave him the green light to do so. Your time is very limited and I almost feel bad for you. Almost.

"Indeed, some of the most prominent criminal trials in recent years were based solely or largely on what the public would dismiss as ?merely circumstantial evidence?

- Ethel Kennedy?s nephew Michael Skakel was convicted last June of killing
15-year-old Martha Moxley in Norwalk, Conn., in 1975. Nobody saw Skakel do it. Prosecutors were never able to place him at the scene. His fingerprints were never found on the 6-iron golf club that killed Moxley ? even though his family owned the 6-iron.

Instead, the prosecution relied on secondhand reports of confessions (in one instance, a third-hand report) and inconsistencies in the alibis Skakel had given in the intervening quarter-century to build a circumstantial web of evidence that persuaded the jurors. "


From the United States Law Library.

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