«Three
different witnesses collected same signatures from same tenants at 875 Morrison Ave. on the same day,» said Bronx Assembly candidate William Russell Moore, who filed the challenge.
One thing I'd love to see added, if possible, would be multiple sets of key documents so that you could pre-identify key documents to use
with different witnesses.
It involves a messy situation with multiple witnesses and plenty of credibility analysis; what is important for our purposes is that it involved a situation where the accused threatened to kill the complainant (para 88) while the accused was intoxicated to the point of being, in the words
of different witnesses: «eight and one half to nine on a scale of ten,» or «temporarily insane» (para 97).
In any event, I imagine that a crafty litigant can file multiple affidavits
from different witnesses, both lay and expert, and the court will be faced with a trial within a trial.
Here's something you may not know about court cases: There are often people in the public gallery who are paid to closely watch the members of the jury to see how they react to
different witnesses.
Based on what you tell me, I may ask a witness different questions, bring in
different witnesses, or alter my strategy.