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.
Over the prosecution's objection, Judge Ito told the lawyers he was going to give the jury special instructions about the infamous dream testimony of prosecution witness Ron Shipp.
We have received sanctimonious lectures from the other side of the aisle about the rule of law, but the law does not permit perjury to be proved by the uncorroborated testimony of one witness nor does the law recognizes corroboration, the fact that the witness made the same statement to several different people.
That was part of the testimony of the first witness, Robert Grabowski, in the trial of Ross Mandell and Adam Harrington, all from Sky Capital.
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Her lawyer says he will also stop attending hearings, after the testimony of a defence witness was cut short.
The law is clear that a person may be convicted of obstructing justice if he corruptly influenced the testimony of a perspective witness.
The jury will be asked to wade through mountains of evidence, including thousands of pages of documents, witness testimony from dozens of witnesses, and more.
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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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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.
"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.
Some of the testimony was equally bizarre, as the accusing witness told of being plied with wine -- "Jesus Juice, " he said Jackson called it.
The European report comes after three months of hearings and witness testimony, as NPR's Rachel Martin reports from Berlin.
But he said the jurors didn't trust the testimony of the government's star witness, former Edwards aide Andrew Young, who accepted the money and hid Mr. Edwards's pregnant mistress from his ailing wife, the late Elizabeth Edwards, and from the press while he ran for president.
In this constitutional process of securing a witness' testimony, perjury simply has no place whatever.
This is more than witness tampering, it is witness compulsion of false testimony by an employer to a subordinate employee.
Most lead news items were court-bound blow-by-blows, ripping Gates' apparently evasive testimony and recounting the testimony of the government's first expert witness.
Several recent, high-profile trials have also used anonymous witness testimony, including those following the murders of schoolboy Michael Dosunmu and care worker Magda Pniewska.
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.
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.
At the centre of the trial was testimony by the government's star witness, David Headley, once Rana's close friend.
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.
Ms. ROUG: First of all, even the authorities are relying on witness testimony, and that varied quite widely.
Combining mapping with user-generated witness reports, Ushahidi, or "testimony, " tracked incidents of deaths, rioting, looting and rape, all sent in by concerned Kenyans.
She has countered with a motion that the grandchildren offered to bribe Breen into giving false testimony (suggesting, perhaps, that he didn't witness the signing of the 2001 will).
In the case of the boat from Libya, the report pieces together what happened from credible witness testimony and other evidence.
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After a week of testimony, jurors will have to decide without having heard from the former Penn State defensive coordinator on the witness stand.
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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.
But the testimony of the boy's mother that was an unmitigated disaster for prosecutors, who by the end of her five-day turn on the stand began to object to their own witness's testimony.
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