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		aidenn0 on Sept 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who is Marcellus Williams: Execution in Missouri d... Multiple witnesses seeing a suspect run out of a store holding a smoking gun shortly after the store clerk was shot is both circumstantial evidence and plenty for a DA to bring to trial.

tptacek on Sept 26, 2024 [–]

I don't think? this is even a real debate. One can want it to be otherwise, but criminal law does not disfavor circumstantial evidence.

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