The disappearance of a vital witness added a new twist to the case.

一名重要证人失踪，令诉讼出现了新的变数。

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Marty Adelman, the Wayne State law professor, was an expert witness in the Ford case. He told me that once Kearns got into the courtroom the odds of his winning shifted dramatically in his favor.

法学教授马丁·阿德尔曼是福特案的专家证人，他告诉我，科恩斯的案子一开审，事态就朝着有利于他的方向戏剧性地逆转了。

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His case was not helped by the evidence of the expert witness.

专家证人的证据没有给该案帮上忙。

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Mr.Taylor is the first witness in his defense and has spent much of the last 13 weeks dismissing the prosecution case against him as a series of lies.

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Dr Turner, the first witness at the case, attended the scene of the fire in 2009.

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