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  • Martinez was more emotional than the sculptor and would therefore make a more satisfactory witness,

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • Terence J. Lynam, one of Mr. Rajaratnam's lawyers, said that an FBI agent falsely portrayed a key cooperating witness,

    Chiesi, U.S. May End Spat on Arrest 2010

  • Last week, a judge refused to bar the testimony of a government witness,

    Rezko Trial Comes Near Critical Voting 2008

  • Defence counsel Courtenay Griffiths stressed that the witness,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Plornish concluded, with the air of a very precise legal witness,

    Little Dorrit 2007

  • And we too have a poet whom we summon as a witness,

    Laws 2006

  • And by that name must die: yet, heaven bear witness,

    The Life of King Henry the Eighth 2004

  • Attorney Michael Shum argued in defence of accused Joseph Ngcongo that it would have been suicidal for him to refuse the use of his garage to Mhlongo and another conspirator and State witness,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • They will be tried jointly and the first state witness,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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