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  • For example, if a stranger made an unsolicited face-to-face request to a potential witness for permission to enter the witness's home, view the witness's photographs and video files, learn the witness's relationship status, religious views and date of birth, and review the witness's personal diary, the witness almost certainly would slam the door shut and perhaps even call the police.

    Bill Singer: Danger: Legal Sharks Circle Online Posters Bill Singer 2010

  • For example, if a stranger made an unsolicited face-to-face request to a potential witness for permission to enter the witness's home, view the witness's photographs and video files, learn the witness's relationship status, religious views and date of birth, and review the witness's personal diary, the witness almost certainly would slam the door shut and perhaps even call the police.

    Bill Singer: Danger: Legal Sharks Circle Online Posters Bill Singer 2010

  • The judges also said the prosecutor should have notified the defense attorney that a gun was found in that witness's hotel room prior to trial.

    Case Tossed Out Sean Gardiner 2011

  • At the centre of the potentially dramatic turn in the case, the New York Times reports, is lack of confidence on the prosecution side in the witness's testimony about herself and what she says happened to her in Strauss-Kahn's room at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan on May 14.

    Strauss-Kahn case is 'close to collapse', say reports 2011

  • The mugger flashed a gun, and research on the weapons focus effect has indicated that guns often draw a witness's attention away from the culprit and the culprit's face: in this case the victims had given detailed descriptions of the gun to police, while admitting to having spent most of the rest of the robbery staring down at the sidewalk in fear.

    Sam Sommers: Why Eyewitness Memory Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be (Part I) Sam Sommers 2011

  • In the city of Daraa, the center of the antigovernment uprising, people chanted "leave, leave," after the speech, according to a witness's account posted online.

    Syrian Leader Shuns Reform Farnaz Fassihi 2011

  • The justices attacked prosecutors' explanation for the DNA results as "highly improbable," adding that they had "distorted to an absurd degree" the witness's testimony.

    David Protess: A Prosecutor's True Calling David Protess 2011

  • The justices attacked prosecutors' explanation for the DNA results as "highly improbable," adding that they had "distorted to an absurd degree" the witness's testimony.

    David Protess: A Prosecutor's True Calling David Protess 2011

  • Mr. Dowd attempted to persuade the judge overseeing the Galleon case to throw out evidence the government gained through wiretaps of Mr. Rajaratnam's phones, asserting that the government left out details about a cooperating witness's history and behaved dishonestly when applying to a magistrate judge for the wiretaps.

    Galleon Chief Seen Testifying at Trial Susan Pulliam 2011

  • John Dowd, Mr. Rajaratnam's lead attorney, attempted to persuade the judge overseeing the Galleon case to throw out wiretap evidence, asserting the government left out details about a cooperating witness's history and was dishonest when applying to a judge for the wiretaps.

    Seasoned Prosecutors Prep for 'War' Susan Pulliam 2011

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