Sentences with phrase «stand as a prosecution witness»

«It was all good food,» he testified Tuesday, his second day on the stand as a prosecution witness.

During his first day on the stand as a prosecution witness, Mei said that well before then, Sinnreich had said he had issues with the town's quest to aid Singh.

When she was on the stand as a prosecution witness, she insisted that the entire thing was an accident.

Not exact matches

The spokesman declined to say if Howe — who was on the witness stand for the prosecution four days this week in the Percoco trial — will be back as scheduled on Monday in the lower Manhattan courtroom.

Assemblywoman Amy Paulin took the stand Tuesday as the prosecution's first witness in the corruption trial of former state Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver, where her description of Albany's inner workings was pointedly contested by Silver's defense lawyer, Steven Molo, in a series of heated exchanges.

Other reasons given by women for not pursuing formal justice include fear of shame due to having rape incidents being made public and thus damage to their social standing, as well as inadequate protection and difficulties encountered during prosecution due to evidence tampering and witness withdrawal.

In a novel version of «Perry Mason,» the fictitious (mostly TV) lawyer called the actual perpetrator of the crime to the stand, as a direct witness because she had declined to testify for the prosecution (against Mason's client).

Concerning, prosecution argument (iii), Bingham f lags up his concerns that the criminal courts have sadly slid down the slippery slope to the point where, as here, witnesses can give anonymous evidence, with the assistance of excessively draconian «protective measures», which cumulatively consign the defendant's right to a fair trial, to the legal dustbin, «by a series of small steps, largely unobjectionable on their own facts, the courts have arrived at a position which is irreconcilable with long - standing principle.»