admissible

Pre-trial hearings, which are standard before many trials, allow parties and judges to determine what evidence is admissible - or allowed to be presented to a jury.

He suggested had it been understood at the time of Stewart's sentencing, the new evidence would have been admissible.

Only supported facts of evidence are allowed in a courtroom; demagoguery and assertions of opinion unsupported by admissible evidence are not allowed.

Taped sessions with a doctor, in which the killings were discussed, were ruled admissible in court by the judge.

As it happens, such evidence is not admissible in court under U.S. or international law, or even under the rules of Guantánamo’s military commissions.