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tending to prove a particular proposition or to persuade you of the truth of an allegation

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"The frailties of the human mind and its capacity to assimilate details of a shooting incident, the inconsistencies and variances in the declarations of a witness does not weaken their probative value," the judge added.
The decision further noted that when the court "reviewed the relevant portions [of the transcript] of the testimonies," it was found that they did "not diminish the probative value of the testimonies at issue."
It was, therefore, not error for the court to consider the prior conviction highly probative of Blankenship's propensity to commit the crime for which he was charged, and, given the parties stipulation to exclude the specific and potentially prejudicial facts from the jury, the court did not err in concluding that this highly probative evidence was not substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice.
"The second comparable property that the Board found probative was 15 Hamlin's Crossing in Dover, which the appellants' appraiser included in her appraisal report for fiscal year 2015.
Having done so, the members of this Panel determine that the Trial Judge's decision was in violation of statutory provisions, affected by other error of law, and clearly erroneous in view of the reliable, probative, and substantial evidence on the whole record.
Orozco that evidence of a suicide attempt is probative of a defendant's consciousness of guilt, as long as circumstances justify an inference that the suicide attempt was motivated by the defendant's belief that he was being sought by authorities for the crime for which he was on trial.
In 2015, the Justice Department and the FBI admitted that 26 of the 28 examiners in the FBI Crime Laboratory had given exaggerated testimony from 1972 to 1999; (8) these examiners had overstated to juries the actual probative value of hair-match analysis.
Facts that Increase the Probative Value of Inter-Competitor
relevance, probative value, and finally weighing any prejudicial
Entering a murder victim's skeletal remains into evidence for a jury to see was more probative than prejudicial, the North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled in a case of first impression.
Voice 370 in a statement here yesterday said the group believed that now that more than four years have passed since MH370 disappeared, there was no reason to continue to withhold data when its probative value far outweighed any prejudicial effects.
The Board of Tax Appeals (BTA), however, found this evidence unreliable and vacated the BOR's decision, remanded the case, and directed the BOR to determine a value based on "competent and probative evidence." The Board of Education (BOE) argued to reinstate the County's original assessment.
"Our deliberations by Skype are just as probative, collaborative, and productive as when deliberating in the same room."<br />Deliberations are held at least twice monthly.
there were concerns that this would sometimes exclude highly probative