Lay conviction from lived observation can override a lawyer’s statistical explanation.
Evidence
“I can’t buy it. I know that water was contaminated. And I know from people around here that barrels have been buried and things have been dumped. I wasn’t the one who did it, but I know it happened.” — , Harr Jonathan - A Civil Action, 880
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Legal inductions represent probabilities rather than absolute truths. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 550; Lay reliance on assumed outcomes should outweigh lawyers’ technical reliance on precedent — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 2384; Legal reasoning yields probability rather than absolute mathematical truths — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 242
Broader Connections
- Lay reliance on assumed outcomes should outweigh lawyers’ technical reliance on precedent
#corroborates(0.85) — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 2384 - Legal inductions represent probabilities rather than absolute truths.
#qualifies(0.75) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 550 - Legal reasoning yields probability rather than absolute mathematical truths
#qualifies(0.75) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 242