ABSTRACT
One task in legal decision-making is to decide about the facts of a case on the basis of the available evidence. This task is not always easy;1 often the evidence in a case points in different directions, for example, when witnesses contradict each other. Determining what exactly can be concluded from the evidence is also not an easy or trivial task. For instance, when an accused’s footprints are found on the scene of the crime one is tempted to assume that the accused has committed the crime, while the footprints by themselves only point in the direction of the accused’s being present.
