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A great part of legal judgments rests on deterministic evidence. Such evidence is always sufficient in law. But evidence may also be of a circumstantial, ie, a “probabilistic” nature. This type of evidence is not as “absolute” as the former. In consequence, an important role is reserved to the judge’s subjective conviction, ie: he reaches his conclusion through the sum of the circumstances.
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Hummel, K. (1994). The Expert’s Evidence and the Judge’s Evaluation of all Information in Court Decisions. In: Bär, W., Fiori, A., Rossi, U. (eds) Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics. Advances in Forensic Haemogenetics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78782-9_4
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