Judge Ramba granted such an immunity order, and thus allowed for a potentially vital defense witness to testify.
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In the conversation, Mr Singh apparently tells Mr Chandra how a prosecution witness would testify in a special court which is hearing the case.
Regarding the widely circulated photograph, Adam Nemann, Mays' attorney, said a potential witness would testify at trial that the girl was not unconscious when the photograph was taken.
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Gilberto Valle, who was suspended without pay after his arrest last fall, hung his head and appeared to wipe away tears Monday as his 27-year-old wife, Kathleen Mangan, became the first witness to testify against him.
If a defence lawyer offers a witness money to testify that his client is innocent, that is bribery.
After a witness agrees to testify for the prosecution, he or she may be eligible to start receiving protection.
Despite the accolades heaped on this treaty by virtually every witness allowed to testify about it (see above), there are serious problems with both the accord itself and the ominous Obama denuclearization policy from which it has sprung, and which it is supposed to advance.
Mr. Clinton would not be the first sitting president to testify as a witness in a criminal proceeding.
The problem was that the most important witness was not expected to testify.
Paula Greene, the probable lead-off witness, is expected to testify that Huang often used the Washington offices of Stephens, Inc.
Prosecutors said they also wanted to call actress Mia Farrow and a witness named Carole Taylor to testify, court papers show.
Today the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, was subpoenaed to testify as a witness in front of the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC).
Two weeks ago at a bankruptcy hearing at a federal courthouse in Baltimore, Beverly Carden, AccuPay's former president, took the Fifth Amendment on the witness stand, refusing to testify about the company's operations or its assets.
On this point -- and here I'll fend off the wrath or maybe the scorn of the managers by quoting not a scholar or a professor, but rather a witness called by the majority members of the Judiciary Committee to testify as an expert on the issue of perjury, a witness who had served on the Judiciary Committee in 1974.
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The younger Sandusky's willingness to testify as a rebuttal witness created a dilemma for Jerry Sandusky's defense team.
Earlier this month, a relative of witness M, who did not testify at last year's trial, swore an affidavit branding him a compulsive liar, the court heard.
Clinton was subpoenaed to testify as a defense witness in the trial of his two former partners in the Whitewater real estate venture in Arkansas -- James McDougal and his former wife, Susan McDougal.
Were they to get information, or were they to get her to falsely testify when she was called as a witness?
But a key witness - known as witness number four - who had been due to testify that Mr Muthaura had been present at a meeting where this plan was formulated, has admitted lying and taking bribes and so his evidence has been dropped.
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The trial before Judge Kaplan, set to begin last week, went off the rails on October 6th when the judge declared inadmissible an important (there is some debate over whether he is really crucial) government witness, Hussein Abebe, who was prepared to testify that he sold Ghailani the TNT that killed 224 people.
Fyles will testify again Wednesday morning as the last prosecution witness.
Ms Lagarde was instead made an assisted witness in the case, meaning she will be called upon to testify but is not directly under suspicion.
The government called several women who were the subjects of some of the Internet correspondence to testify how they knew Valle just before Walsh took the witness stand.
Clinton was listed on the prosecution's witness list although it was unclear whether she would have been called to testify.
If Lewinsky were to testify, Tripp would then be relegated to a mere corroborating witness, appearing only after Monica had spilled to the grand jury.
Mr Kay made the call after ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda dropped charges against Mr Kenyatta's co-accused, Francis Muthaura, because a key witness had "recanted" his evidence and other witnesses were too scared to testify.
Furthermore, because perjury and obstruction charges often arise from private dealings with few observers, the courts have required either two witnesses who testify directly to the facts establishing the crime, or if only one witness testifies to the facts constituting the alleged perjury, that there be substantial corroborating proof to establish guilt.
Pettite was scheduled to testify at yesterday's hearing but Monday night he was dropped from the witness list.
One important witness, a Sikh newspaper publisher who had written against Sikh nationalists, was murdered before he could testify.
Another possible star witness is the president himself though Clinton isn't ready to say whether he will volunteer to testify or if he will challenge Lewinsky's account of their relationship.
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