Definitions for direct evidence
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1. direct evidencenoun

   evidence (usually the testimony of a witness) directly related to the fact in dispute

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1. Direct evidence

   Direct evidence supports the truth of an assertion directly, i.e., without an intervening inference. Circumstantial evidence, by contrast, consists of a fact or set of facts which, if proven, will support the creation of an inference that the matter asserted is true. For example: a witness who testifies that he saw the defendant shoot the victim gives direct evidence. A witness who testifies that he saw the defendant fleeing the scene of the crime, or a forensics expert who says that ballistics proves that the defendant’s gun shot the bullet that killed the victim both give circumstantial evidence from which the defendants’s guilt may be inferred. In direct evidence a witness relates what he or she directly experienced.

Matched Categories

1. • Evidence
   • Law

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of direct evidence in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of direct evidence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of direct evidence in a Sentence

1. Ian Harrison:

   It does not reveal where or when Ian Harrison did so, nor does it reveal where Lynette Dawson's body is now. The charge of murder in this trial is unsupported by direct evidence.

2. Christophe Snoeck:

   Our results are the first one to provide direct evidence on the origin of those buried at Stonehenge, shedding light on the importance of the site in the Neolithic landscape.

3. Daniel Field:

   It may have taken on the order of 100 years for the' fern spike' to begin, and about 1,000 years for forest communities to rebound, once forests were back, the ancestors of today's modern tree-dwelling birds could -- and did -- move into the trees. By a couple of millions of years after the asteroid impact, we have direct evidence of arboreal fossil birds.

4. Elijah Cummings:

   The Committee has obtained direct evidence that multiple high-level White House officials have been violating the Presidential Records Act by using personal email accounts, text messaging services, and even encrypted applications for official business - and not preserving those records in compliance with federal law.

5. Andrew Ceresney:

   Establishing fraudulent intent is one of the most challenging issues in our investigations, and emails and other electronic messages are often the only direct evidence of that state of mind.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=direct evidence
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=direct evidence