Sentences with phrase «against witness testimony»

Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference today in which he defended himself for a second consecutive day against witness testimony in a federal corruption trial.

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The program was created to protect witnesses who are in danger as a result of the testimony against criminals.

The case against Carlos is also based on witness testimony from his former brothers - in - arms, including Hans - Joachim Klein, a German to whom the Venezuelan is said to have admitted he wanted to «apply pressure to get the Japanese man freed.»

Gary wrong again, Gary wrong again: I was a guest before this on this blog: Even check out Martin Zender; The World's most outspoken bible scholar facebook; You will find me there; he knows me, and his crew knows of me; Father has others too that have been with me for years that are not in my city through their ministries also that have come up along side of me, but I do not want you to come against them as they have their own trials to overcome, therefore; no names given there, they also know me and my testimony: I am God's workmanship therefore, I was brought up in Christ along side witnesses as His testimony: Gary; this is going to be shocking, but because God does not inform you of a thing, means to me, that He has kept very much from you: Now why would that be?

Fulfillment: Matthew 26:59 - 60 Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain false testimony against Jesus, in order that they might put Him to death; and they did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward.

Mark and Matthew report that the council tried to get testimony against Jesus that would justify a sentence of death, but though many false witnesses were found, they did not agree in their testimony (Mk 14:55 - 59; Mt 26:59 - 61).

Israel's Unsolicited Testimony: Even against the advice of an attorney, a witness will often offer unsolicited tTestimony: Even against the advice of an attorney, a witness will often offer unsolicited testimonytestimony.

Al - Ma» mun insisted that those who held that the Qur» an was uncreated sinned against the unity of God, and he established a test of views on the Qur» an which had to be passed by all judges and by all witnesses in court before their testimony would be accepted.

In intention, whatever the juridical overtones, the prohibition means to suppress any and all «witness» that constitutes false testimony against the neighbor, and the depreciation, even destruction, of his reputation.

Joe Percoco's attorney, Barry Bohrer, issued a statement suggesting the charges against him were based on non-credible witness testimony and wouldn't square with the Supreme Court's recent ruling vacating a fraud charge against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.

The government wrapped up nearly three weeks of testimony and evidence in its corruption case against former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, resting its case after calling two witnesses who testified in support of the money - laundering charges against the assemblyman.

Rechnitz, who is still on the witness stand, has also pled guilty to bribing NYPD and City Hall officials through donations Ross Offinger, a de Blasio campaign fundraiser — resulting in testimony that has sometimes overshadowed the allegations against Seabrook.

During closing arguments in the corruption trial against state Sen. Dean Skelos and his son, Adam, a lawyer for the younger Skelos told jurors that the government's case against the former majority leader relies on burdening the jury with heaps of emails, phone calls and witness testimony to distract jurors from the lack of a supposed smoking gun.

The prosecution's key witnesses included a teenager named James Burke, whose testimony against his neighborhood friends helped send them to prison.

All three defense attorneys started getting their licks in early on prosecution witnesses Singh, Frederick Mei and Leonard Genova — all of whom have deals in place in exchange for anticipated testimony against Edward and Linda Mangano and Venditto.

The actions against the witness, Todd Howe, signal that prosecutors may nullify his cooperation agreement, a move that could cast doubt on his four days of testimony and put at risk the government's case against former Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco.

The unexpected testimony — which visibly startled prosecutor Brent Wible — marked the second time a prosecution witness veered off script after being called to testify against Seabrook.

Although the witness began his testimony in a government case against former head of the correction officers» union Norman Seabrook, much of his testimony ended up revealing details of his relationship with de Blasio.

Todd Howe, center, exits court on Monday after his first day of testimony as a government witness in the corruption case against Joseph Percoco and three other defendants.

The principal witness testifying against Captain Lord was a second donkeyman in engineering (a junior supervisor), Ernest Gill, who hated Lord, and supplied his damning testimony after being paid nearly a year's salary by a journalist for his story.

Connerty makes his case in court but comes up against unexpected witness testimony.

Dake, previously a stand - up guy himself (albeit a bit of a stiff), has just shut down an interview with Ira Schirmer, a lead witness in their case against Bobby Axelrod... because Schirmer is now offering testimony against his former friend, and their colleague, Chuck Rhoades, instead.

This can be in the form of correspondence between you and your spouse that would suggest they should not be left alone with your child, reports or testimony from counselors or parenting evaluators, a restraining order you may have against your spouse or even declarations from character witnesses that feel supervised visitation is called for.

It will be important to gather the testimony of character witnesses who can rebut any false accusations of child abuse that are made against you.

The Fifth Amendment privilege is available if the witness has reasonable ground to believe that her testimony will be used against her to prove an element of a crime.

As The Times explains, Paterno was not subject to cross-examination in the grand jury proceeding, and using that testimony would therefore violate the Sixth Amendment, which ensures a criminal defendant's right «to be confronted with the witnesses against him.»

Since witness and expert testimony form the basis of many cases, the prosecution will use this against you, weakening your case and your attorney's leverage when negotiating your settlement.

After years - long discovery in a defense of a False Claims Act action brought against a large healthcare company, including personally taking and defending more than twenty depositions of fact and expert witnesses, successfully excluded testimony of plaintiff / relator's experts and obtained complete summary judgment on all False Claims Act claims.

Under section 13, witnesses may not have any incriminating evidence they give as testimony used against them in separate proceedings.

Among Mr. Born's recent significant litigation matters are representation of various European entities in the Holocaust Assets and Forced Labor litigations, representation of a major US petroleum company in defending against efforts to enforce purported foreign judgments in the United States and testimony as an expert witness in a number of proceedings in Swedish, English, US, Japanese and other courts.

Cosby's attorneys contend that in light of the judge allowing five witnesses unrelated to the case to testify against Cosby, he should have allowed the deposition testimony of Ms. Williams to be read to the jury.

Similarly where a discipline panel finds against a registrant by favouring a complainant's version of events, and finding that the registrant is not credible, it can not merely set out its conclusions; it faces the difficult but necessary task of explaining why it has rejected a registrant's testimony, preferably by going beyond the often - unreliable factor of witness demeanour.

Legal ethics authorities reason that the only effect of that kind of testimony is not to bring out relevant evidence but simply to prejudice the jury against the witness.

@DavidGrinberg: And yet, people are prosecuted for murder... the Confrontation Clause doesn't mean you get to face your victim, it means you get to hear any testimony against you and cross-examine the witnesses.

Assuming that no exclusionary rule applies, evidence obtained by a vigilante can potentially be admitted through the testimony of a police officer or other witness, subject to the rule against hearsay and the question of reliability.