The testimony of a witness who shared a cell with Robert Firkins, and told the police Firkins had confessed to the crime, was central to the trial.
The law is clear that a person may be convicted of obstructing justice if he corruptly influenced the testimony of a perspective witness.
Her lawyer says he will also stop attending hearings, after the testimony of a defence witness was cut short.
Jurors in Yates' first trial found her guilty of capital murder in March 2002, but the conviction was overturned in 2005 because of the erroneous testimony of a prosecution witness.
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In this constitutional process of securing a witness' testimony, perjury simply has no place whatever.
"The close" is when lawyers finally connect all the dots and weave a coherent story out of witness testimony and documentary evidence.
The court said it based its ruling largely on the testimony of the key prosecution witness, Ruben Chanax, a homeless man who claimed he had been hired by the officers.
Court papers show Ms. Lee has received immunity from prosecutors in exchange for her testimony as a witness at next week's trial of former campaign treasurer Jia "Jenny" Hou and fundraiser Xing Wu "Oliver" Pan.
This is more than witness tampering, it is witness compulsion of false testimony by an employer to a subordinate employee.
During the trial the testimony of the key witness for the prosecution (who had cut a deal with the government for less jail time in return for pointing a finger at a higher-up like Tobin) was effectively impeached.
However, the new jury would have to review evidence and hear opening statements, closing arguments and witness testimony in a "Cliffs Notes" version of the trial, Romley said.
Ranta's story is set to change in dramatic fashion on Thursday, when prosecutors say they'll ask a judge to vacate his conviction based on a recent review that cast doubt on witness testimony and concluded detectives had mishandled aspects of the investigation.
He wouldn't allow the defense to argue that no one's memory is infallible and blocked testimony from an expert witness who had made extensive studies of memory--especially what happens when a person handles the multitudinous tasks Libby was tackling 14 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The case rested largely on the eyewitness testimony of a career criminal named Robert Fitzgerald, who had been an informant for prosecutors before and was in the witness-protection program.
The defense revealed inconsistencies in the testimony of the current accuser when he took the stand, and the teen's younger brother was a surly and unsympathetic witness.
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