It’s stretching the circumstantial evidence past the breaking point to suggest that Putin cut a secret deal with Benjamin Netanyahu: You get the Middle East, I get Ukraine.

The jacket was important because Tepper’s theory of the crime was largely circumstantial.

But it summarized circumstantial evidence, including the argument that the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted “gain-of-function” studies that modified distantly related coronaviruses.

His team set out to prove a circumstantial case that the killings were united by a common scheme and plan.

He said the evidence against his client was "entirely circumstantial".