And there's collateral evidence to be dug up.

The judge said the testimony would be collateral evidence - not directly bearing on the case - and declared the witness inadmissible.

Privately however, Meade confided to his wife that "Kilpatrick's reputation, and collateral evidence in my possession, rather go against this theory" that Dahlgren alone devised the conspiracy.

If such direct proof could require any collateral evidence to confirm it, I would observe that this has likewise been the case in France, and probably in most other parts of Europe.

Analytical bibliography often uses collateral evidence - such as general printing practices, trends in format, responses and non-responses to design, etc. - to scrutinize the historical conventions and influences underlying the physical appearance of a text.

Griffith Thomas commented that the retention of the words "militant here in earth" defines the scope of this petition: we pray for ourselves, we thank God for them, and adduces collateral evidence to this end.

Further evidence from ancient DNA, reconsiderations of mutation rates, and collateral evidence from autosomal DNA growth rates suggest that the major period of European population expansion occurred after the Holocene.

But officials have said evidence against him was dated and fragmentary, based primarily on his access to data believed to have fallen into Chinese hands and on collateral evidence, like his past travels to meetings with scientists in China.