Sentences with phrase «of unreliable witnesses»

Such differences in answers to the question seeking specific information should not be interpreted as indicative of an unreliable witness.

Not exact matches

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Despite the fact that, by virtue of being a woman she would have been considered an unreliable witness whose testimony wouldn't hold up in court, Mary Magdalene is charged with telling the world that Jesus Christ rose from the dead.

If you walked those four stories into court, all of the witnesses would be discredited as unreliable.

Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women.

Umar also noted that the evidence of the first prosecution witness, Mr. Michael Wetkas, an operative of the EFCC, was unreliable.

This makes her an important but completely unreliable witness once the young Mrs. Hipwell disappears, leaving behind a trail of secrets, as alienated women are wont to do in thrillers that have Girl in the title.

But in her judgment at the end of August, Mrs Justice Gloster dismissed the claim, finding Berezovsky to be «an unimpressive, and inherently unreliable, witness, who regarded truth as a transitory, flexible concept, which could be moulded to suit his current purposes».

Today, in federal district court in Wichita, Judge Monti Belot is holding a hearing, at which a government expert will apparently try to convince the judge that two defense witnesses should be precluded from testifying at trial, as «Rwandan witnesses are inherently unreliable because they're controlled by the government of the African nation.»

Rwandan witnesses are inherently unreliable because they're controlled by the government of the African nation.»

So, proof beyond a reasonable doubt of very old events in which physical evidence may no longer be available and some witness testimony may have become old or unreliable, may be a problem.

Finally, below is just one example of many, of the report containing fatal innacuracies and relying on unreliable witnesses.

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC), on behalf of the defendants, said that the injury claimant was an unreliable witness and deliberately exaggerated his... Continue reading →

Arguing that the death penalty should not be permitted for non-homicide child sexual assault cases because child witnesses are especially susceptible to suggestion and are unreliable, so that the risk of wrongful conviction and wrongful execution are unacceptably high in such cases.

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.

The two defendants were cleared of criminal wrongdoing after prosecutors deemed a pair of key witnesses (also former York employees) unreliable in October 2013.

They describe several Canadian cases of rape in which victims were deemed unreliable witnesses.

There were inconsistencies in the son's evidence and he was deemed an unreliable witness It was held that Mrs Franks did not know or approve of the 1994 will.

He found the evidence of Pender and the one attesting witness who went into the box, unimpressive and unreliable.

Lora M. Levett and Margaret Bull Kovera, The Effectiveness of Opposing Expert Witnesses for Educating Jurors about Unreliable Expert Evidence.