“Convictions are made on circumstantial evidence all the time”
Hannity today made one of the dumbest comments he’s said in a while (and he’s said some stupid ones). He said that the case was based only only on circumstantial evidence, and it lacked any DNA evidence, fingerprints, a smoking gun, etc.
Uhm, DNA evidence IS circumstantial evidence.
Fingerprints ARE cincumstantial evidence.
A “smoking gun” IS circumstantial evidence - “I didn’t see him shoot her, but when I arrived at the scene he was holding a smoking gun.”
Cases that relied solely on circumstantial evidence:
- Scott Peterson for 1st degree murder of Laci Peterson - only forensic evidence was 1 strand of Laci’s hair in Scott’s boat.
- OJ Simpson’s original double-murder case.
- Tim McVeigh.
- Bobby Frank Cherry, for killing 4 girls when bombing Birminghams’ 16th Street Baptist Church, convicted decades after the crime was committed.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Good points and all good examples.
Timothy McVeigh came to mind for me too, and there was even less circumstantial evidence in that case.