Sentences with phrase «trial as a prosecution witness»

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In addition, the court held that the police counsel could not convince it as to how the defendant is likely to influence prosecution witnesses in the cause of his trial if released on bail.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political enemies are launching an all - out, online blitz as the corruption trial of a former top aide heats up this week with testimony from the prosecution's star witness.

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.

On 4 June 2007 the CPS asked the police to undertake further enquiries, [61] following reports that the police were pressing for Tony Blair to be called as a prosecution witness in any trial.

A legal practitioner, Kingsley Ekwem, on Tuesday declined to testify as a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu and two others facing trial for alleged N2.9 bn fraud.

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.

Harendra Singh, the prosecution's star witness at Mangano's corruption trial, said Mangano brought Schumer to an eatery he described as his «East Meadow location» following an unspecified event in September 2010.

The Albany County District Attorney's Office took over prosecution of his case in February 2018, at the request of Rensselaer County District Attorney Joel Abelove, who may call the detective as a witness in an upcoming quadruple murder trial.

Nwachukwu, who had within the period served at the Central Clearing and Foreign Operations units of the bank, appeared before the Danladi Umar - led CCT as the second prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Saraki.

As the Dasukigate unfold, the ongoing trial of former Chairman of DAAR Communications Plc, Raymond Dokpesi before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja suffered another setback on Tuesday following the absence of prosecution witness.

Percoco, a former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, is on trial accused of accepting more than $ 300,000 in bribes from upstate business developers — payments referred to as «ziti» in communications between Percoco and lobbyist Todd Howe, the prosecution's a star witness who testified that the term was borrowed from the former HBO mob drama.

He is the supposed key witness for the prosecution in that trial as well.

He was testifying as the third prosecution witness in the trial of Saraki on 18 counts of assets declaration breaches which he allegedly committed while being governor of Kwara State and a senator.

Singh, 59, is testifying as a prosecution witness in the trial of a Long Island politician, ex-Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano.

Briscoe was dropped as a key prosecution witness in the trial of former cabinet minister and Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne and his ex-wife, economist Vicky Pryce.

(The press materials understandably keep mum about Basic Instinct but are not at all reluctant to describe the murder trial as «reminiscent of the romantic intrigue contained in such courtroom movie classics from the late 1950s as Billy Wilder's Witness for the Prosecution and Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder,» politely admitting that Body of Evidence dutifully — if pointlessly — rips off both these very entertaining movies.)

«Witness for the Prosecution» (1957, Billy Wilder) From the famous Agatha Christie short story, Billy Wilder expertly fashions one of the screen's trickiest trial - drama / murder mysteries — with Charles Laughton as the wily, wheelchair - bound barrister, his real - life wife Elsa Lanchester as his long - suffering nurse, and Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich as the incendiary couple caught up in a legendary triple - reverse surprise ending.

Adler is also a critic of the work of Thomas Kane, another person of interest (see prior posts about Kane here and here), as Kane is also involved with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he is a proponent of VAMs as aligned with the Gates Foundation's interests, and he (like Chetty) served as a key witness for the prosecution in the same Vergara v. California trial.

Consequently, for a judge not to allow defense voir dire / cross examination questioning of a prosecution witness before a damning exhibit is allowed into evidence, presents not only a Due Process issue but also a possible perception of pro-prosecutorial bias of the judge, whether or not that bias exists, at least in the eyes of laypeople watching the trial, when a critical element of a sufficiently functioning judicial system is for the public to perceive judges as following their oaths of office.

The George Zimmerman murder trial took a strange detour into social media this afternoon, as prosecution witness Jenna Lauer, who placed the 911 call on which screams for help can be heard, was accused by the prosecutor of following Zimmerman's brother, Robert Zimmerman, Jr., on Twitter.

The defendant alleged that admitting the victim's statement at trial would violate his 6th Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him as set forth in Crawford v. Washington, while the prosecution argued that the statement constituted an exception to the hearsay rule as an excited utterance and its admission would not violate the 6th Amendment.

At trial, the prosecution can't call the defendant as a witness, or comment on the defendant's failure to testify.

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.»

A direction to a defendant charged with criminal damage that he serve on the prosecution the full names, dates of birth and addresses of all defence witnesses who were to be called at trial, before he indicated his defence, has been quashed by the court, as breaching both litigation privilege and legal professional privilege.

Dutton has served as an expert witness in criminal trials involving family violence, including his work for the prosecution in the O.J. Simpson trial.