Sentences with phrase «statement in a murder case»
Is starting your defense opening statement in a murder case with a knock - knock joke a good idea?
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Speaking in an interview with Kwame Tutu on frontline on Rainbow Radio, Supt. Cephas Arthur said he was sad that a legislator could make such scandalous statements over a high profile case involving the murder of a colleague MP.
The motion noted that Handy was investigated for falsifying the confession of Edwin Chandler, who served 10 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, and concluded, «Put bluntly, the Commonwealth can not put credibility into an unrecorded statement taken by a detective who has a documented history of fabricating details of a murder case in his investigative summaries.»
Addressing this issue, particular value should be attached to those cases where the defendant provides evidence in the form of a witness statement or is prepared to give evidence at any subsequent trial, and does so, with added force where the information either produces convictions for the most serious offences, including terrorism and murder, or prevents them, or which leads to disruption to or indeed the break up of major criminal gangs.
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has restored the first - degree murder acquittal of a man from Cambridge, Ont., in a case that saw a key witness recant his statement.