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Several years ago, assigned as a detective sergeant, I received a call from a business owner regarding the theft of $130,000 from her company’s bank account. She suspected her bookkeeper of embezzling the money. During the course of the investigation, we discovered the bookkeeper was terminated by a previous employer for embezzling $60,000.
Res ipsa loquitur
A word used in tort to refer to situations where negligence is presumed on the defendant since the object causing injury was in his or her control. This is a presumption which can be rebutted by showing that the event was an inevitable accident and had nothing to do with the defendant's responsibility of control or supervision. An example of res ipsa loquitur would be getting hit by a rock which flies off a passing dump truck. The event itself imputes negligence (res ipsa loquitur) and can only be defeated if the defendant can show that the event was a total and inevitable accident.
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Res ipsa loquitur