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.
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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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 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.
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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The law is clear that a person may be convicted of obstructing justice if he corruptly influenced the testimony of a perspective witness.
Third, the president personally, with corrupt intentions, tampered with the testimony of a perspective witness, Betty Currie.
Her lawyer says he will also stop attending hearings, after the testimony of a defence witness was cut short.
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.
The managers cast this conversation, this recitation, this series of statements and questions put by the president to Ms. Currie in the most sinister light possible and alleged that the president attempted to influence the testimony of a "witness, " quote, "witness, " unquote, by pressuring Ms. Currie to agree with an inaccurate version of the facts surrounding his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.
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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.
Some of the testimony was equally bizarre, as the accusing witness told of being plied with wine -- "Jesus Juice, " he said Jackson called it.
At the centre of the trial was testimony by the government's star witness, David Headley, once Rana's close friend.
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.
Thirteen, there is substantial and credible evidence that the president may have endeavored to obstruct justice and engage in witness tampering in attempting to coach and influence the testimony of Betty Currie before the grand jury.
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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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The president's testimony in the Jones deposition involved his relationship with a witness who was ancillary to the core issues of the Jones case.
"The close" is when lawyers finally connect all the dots and weave a coherent story out of witness testimony and documentary evidence.
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.
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.
The European report comes after three months of hearings and witness testimony, as NPR's Rachel Martin reports from Berlin.
Ms. ROUG: First of all, even the authorities are relying on witness testimony, and that varied quite widely.
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.
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.
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).
But in the meantime, we must recount, even at the risk of overlapping in some of the testimony, that following the initial recognition by the president that there was going to be a witness list.
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 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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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.
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