Are just allegations enough to get charged with a crime? When it’s your word against theirs in court.
Episode Transcript
Chris Combs: And allegations alone will do it. Steve hit on this earlier, which is, there’s people sitting in prison all over the country based upon what someone said. Testimony is evidence. We’ve got a lot of people, and I’m sure you do too, that call up and say, “There’s no evidence here,” just because someone said something. They think there’s no concrete evidence, but testimony is evidence.
So the allegation alone can carry a lot of weight, of course.
Steve Waterkotte: And those are difficult cases because it becomes a credibility in many respects. But again, it’s imperative to have an attorney who is diligent in leaving no stone unturned so we can uncover inconsistencies in the alleged victim’s statements, stories, things that we can uncover evidentiary wise to rebut these allegations, to contradict these allegations.
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