> wholly, exclusively. a selection based purely on merit

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> A popular misconception is that circumstantial evidence is less valid or less important than direct evidence

because you know ... knowing that a person's phone was in the vicinity at a specific time in a specific area is as strong as a video of person A killing person B.

Such a common "misconception".

Furthermore, we know that people get wrongly convicted. We know this because they get exonerated down the road. It's also a tautology. "It's ok to use circumstantial evidence to get convictions because the legal system currently uses circumstantial evidence to get convictions".

Some of us don't want to go to jail because we happened to be driving through the wrong place at the wrong time.