Topic: circumstantial evidence is as competent and is entitled to … · Go Syfert
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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 13 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Coleman v. Commonwealth.

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1 Coleman v. Commonwealth Anchor
va · 1983
green “circumstantial evidence is as competent and is entitled to as much weight as direct evidence, provided the evidence as a whole is sufficiently convincing to exclude every reasonable hypothesis except that of guilt.” 6
2 Hughes v. Commonwealth
vactapp · 1994
green “consider otherwise innocent circumstances in isolation and conclude that each circumstance standing alone” 4
3 Johnson v. Commonwealth
va · 1981
green “done in furtherance of his sexual advances and not with the intent to deprive the victim of her personal liberty.” 3

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