Probable Cause

Seventeen-year-old Sammy Adams was running down the sidewalk alongside Floradora Avenue, no doubt a little faster than he should.  He was late for work.  Again.  Today was inventory day and he knew what the boss would do if he didn’t get there on time.

Doris Daudy, a woman of approximately 38 years old, was walking north on Maroa toward her home just north of the Tower District.  Her purse was slung over one shoulder, her arms wrapped around grocery bags.  She never minded the walk; it was just a few blocks.  And although there was an occasional purse-snatching in the area, she’d walked this route for years without problems and felt perfectly safe.

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Albert Einstein once said:

A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Experiments help us find the answers to problems.  Experiments help us find the Truth, or the closest thing to it.  Without experiments, the world so many of us take for granted today would not exist.

But what does this mean?  What is an experiment?  And why am I, an attorney, writing about it on a legal blog?

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