evidentiary
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During the evidentiary hearing in January 2024, nine jurors testified that they hadn’t heard such admonishments from Hill.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026
So the court’s new evidentiary test does not fail by accident but by its design.
From Slate • May 22, 2026
These systems are — as has been extensively and embarrassingly documented — prone to generating fabricated citations, misreading evidentiary context and issuing confident-sounding verdicts about matters they fundamentally do not understand.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026
He dismissed statements from prosecution witnesses as "assumption layered upon hearsay" and urged the judging panel to give them "negligible evidentiary weight".
From Barron's • Feb. 26, 2026
No definitive data exist, but the majority of the extant evidentiary scraps indicate it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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