“It would be our position that it is totally inadmissible. My client adamantly denies being involved in that. There is no evidence.”
Michael Santangelo
“INADMISSIBLE, adj. Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with, and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible because the person quoted was unsworn and is not before the court for examination; yet most momentous actions, military, political, commercial and of every other kind, are daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law. It cannot be proved that the battle of Blenheim ever was fought, that there was such as person as Julius Caesar, such an empire as Assyria. But as records of courts of justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind. The evidence (including confession) upon which certain women were convicted of witchcraft and executed was without a flaw; it is still unimpeachable. The judges' decisions based on it were sound in logic and in law. Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.”
Ambrose Bierce
“One cannot deny that Katrina ironically may have had a positive effect on this index because of the big surge in orders.”
Cary Leahey
“We were also denied a total of 116 results forms from different polling stations in 11 rural constituencies.”
Ibrahim Lipumba
“He denies being involved in any conspiracy. Mr. Boone fully expects to be acquitted at trial and looks forward to his day in court.”
Peter Anderson
“It is a total lie. I have spoken with Abdullah and he strongly denied everything, and he did not talk to anybody about any supposed coup plot against Brother Murad Ebrahim.”
Mohagher Iqbal
“We are denying any involvement in any property acquisitions for such a purpose.”
Byron Miller
