During the trial the testimony of the key witness for the prosecution (who had cut a deal with the government for less jail time in return for pointing a finger at a higher-up like Tobin) was effectively impeached.
QC whose annihilation of the chief prosecution witness in the recent Damilola Taylor murder trial probably qualifies him as one of Mr Blunkett's meddlesome lawyers says that his profession has been seized upon as a convenient scapegoat.
The court heard that concerns about the credibility of the key prosecution witness were not disclosed to the defence.
In March, five men who had been jailed in 2008 for the murder were freed on appeal after it emerged concerns over the credibility of the key prosecution witness were not disclosed to the defence.
The court said it based its ruling largely on the testimony of the key prosecution witness, Ruben Chanax, a homeless man who claimed he had been hired by the officers.
That would change Mr. Pettitte's role in the trial from that of a key prosecution witness to an asset for the defense.
But, it says with a touch of bitterness, "only Slobodan Milosevic is on the bench of the accused, while Stipe Mesic is a witness for the prosecution".
Reviewing aloud the text during cross-examination of prosecution witness Corey Walsh, defense attorney Robert Baum sought to make the FBI agent counter his prior testimony that Valle's e-mails and online chats with others who said they were interested in cannibalism were real.
"The prosecution does not call any witness to support the charge of outrage against public and religious morality, " he told the court.
And much of Wednesday's hearing was devoted to questioning a potential expert witness for the prosecution, Evan Kohlmann, an international terrorism expert who apparently examined the contents of a laptop belonging to Hasan.
Such a move is not as radical as it looks, since in many cases witness the trial of the two ten-year-olds who killed James Bulger the prosecution already succeeds in arguing that the defendant knows right from wrong.
Over the prosecution's objection, Judge Ito told the lawyers he was going to give the jury special instructions about the infamous dream testimony of prosecution witness Ron Shipp.
Jurors in Yates' first trial found her guilty of capital murder in March 2002, but the conviction was overturned in 2005 because of the erroneous testimony of a prosecution witness.
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The Court of Appeal in Belfast heard that a new witness has come forward who has said a key prosecution witness in the 2012 trial is a "compulsive liar".
The prosecution's star witness was one of the suspects, Ariel Tejada, who testified that Velez knew what was happening and wanted in on the crime.
In explaining his decision, Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals chided the prosecution for remaining "unconstitutionally silent" on the "history of misconduct" of its key witness, a Phoenix police detective.
The lives of Mrs Ocampo and another prosecution witness are said to have been threatened.
The prosecution's key witness, the former head of Pakistan's aviation authority, testified that Sharif ordered him to refuse permission for the plane carrying military chief Pervez Musharraf and 200 other passengers to land in Islamabad, even though fuel was running dangerously low, AP said.
Mr. McNamee is crucial to the prosecution because he is the only witness to say he has firsthand knowledge of Mr. Clemens's alleged drug-taking.
It was a bit "cheeky" of the prosecution to blame defence obstruction when they had not called the one witness who could tell the jury about it - the former case controller for the Serious Fraud Office, Lorna Harris, he said.
Another likely witness for the prosecution is Andy Pettitte, a former New York Yankees teammate and a friend of Mr. Clemens's.
Perhaps the most dramatic witness for the prosecution was Bonita Henderson, a former aide (and another former mistress) of Mr Lyons.
The defense team also felt it had established plenty of reasonable doubt with the playing of excerpts from taped interviews that portrayed racial bias on the part of former Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman, a key prosecution witness.
Mr Hackett said that one prosecution witness had said it would have needed a forklift truck to deliver the amount of cash required for such deposits.
The prosecution lawyer said a careful analysis of fingerprint, forensic, circumstantial and eye-witness evidence demonstrated that Mr Tobin had raped and murdered Ms Kluk.
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