Irrelevant evidence

IRRELEVANT EVIDENCE. That which does not support the issue, and which) of course, must be excluded. See Relevant.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.
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Irrelevant evidence is automatically inadmissible, and no legitimate inferences can be drawn from it.
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The defence team described the bail review as frivolous and based on irrelevant evidence. However, Magistrate Graeme Henson agreed with the prosecutors that the case against Droudis is stronger now than it was when she was granted bail 12 months ago.
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A similar problem occurs with her warning against chronologically or geographically irrelevant evidence, since her discussion of table manners draws equally on Hadith and on the observations of nineteenth-century Orientalists, as if the intervening centuries could not have witnessed changes in etiquette.
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McGuffin's attorneys had contended that he was prevented from getting a fair trial after the state introduced what they call irrelevant evidence about his character.
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A "credentials alone" conception of probable cause in the narcotics-detection dog context would render irrelevant evidence that the dog's handler cued the dog into a false alert or incorrectly interpreted the dog's alert, both problems recognized by the Supreme Court of Florida.
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The court observed that as a cornerstone of evidentiary law, relevant evidence is admissible, and irrelevant evidence is not admissible-Relevant evidence is defined as "evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidenced Thus, the court held that the sole issue for the jury was whether the failure of Dr.
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Gavin Millar QC, for Coun Afzal, accused the petitioners of producing irrelevant evidence.
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(10) Content trial objections pertain to substantive evidence (e.g., calls for hearsay, speculation, or irrelevant evidence) whereas form trial objections deal with non-substantive issues.
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The report alleges that the Justice Department "relied on false, flimsy or irrelevant evidence" in making the detentions, and that almost none of the men detained was ever charged with a crime or even provided useful testimony.
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Irrelevant evidence is not admissible and is therefore objectionable; it's that simple.
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