The right underpins the requirement for the prosecution
witness to be identifiable not only to the defendant, but also to the open court.
Witness Protection in Pakistan
* Subpoena the
Witness to Testify in Court: Subpoenas must be served on the witness in person.
Witness Intimidation: What You Can Do To Protect Your Witness
* Do decide whether you want to help the witness recall all of the facts previously known but perhaps forgotten or if it serves the company's interest for the
witness to proceed without a refreshed recollection.
IRS interviews
The scheme seeks to enable a
witness to give testimony in a judicial setting or to cooperate with law enforcement and investigating agency without fear of intimidation or reprisal.
Delhi govt ready with new witness safety policy
According to the defendants and their families, it is impossible for the
witness to recognize the faces at a distance from 200 to 300 meters.
The protected witness in case "Monster" is a woman
Counsel should not automatically ask the military judge to grant the most drastic remedy just because the witness did not testify the way counsel wanted the
witness to testify.
Claiming privilege against self-incrimination during cross-examination
Compound questions and questions that invite ambiguous answers should be avoided: "Did you see or hear the collision, and did your wife as well?" Avoid open-ended questions that give no hint as to whether the answer would be relevant and that leave the
witness to wander with no guidance: "Is there anything else you want to say?"
Practice pointers for administrative hearings examination of witnesses
2004) (requiring
witness to provide "strong showing of particularized need"), with Bursey v.
Criminal procedure - First Circuit establishes less demanding requirement of particularized need to access prior grand jury testimony - In re Grand Jury
Rather than be witnesses only of the death of their Lord and friend, the disciples were called to
witness to his life.
Credible, caring witnesses
If the case or witness does not justify an in-person interview, send a short questionnaire for the
witness to complete.
Direct examination of lay witnesses: be well prepared, make the witness part of the client's story, start strong and finish strong: use these fundamental trial techniques when questioning lay witnesses to persuade the jury to provide fair compensation for your client
Make sure that your in-house contact obtains a time commitment from the
witness to allow for sufficient preparation.
Tips for preparing your corporate witness for deposition
(46) The ideal, as noted above, was for the
witness to give his own account without any prompting.
Judicial authority and popular justice: crimes of passion in Fin-de-Siecle Paris
You may have heard about the DVD called "Stop Snitching" that advocates witness intimidation and that emphasizes its point with an illustration on its back cover showing three dead bodies over the words "snitch prevention" In Baltimore, where this DVD is on sale, Ricky Prince, a
witness to a gang shooting who had agreed to testify, was recently shot in the head.
Intimidate the intimidators
* ATTORNEYS WILL ASK AN EXPERT
WITNESS to disclose any information of a personal nature that could diminish their effectiveness.
So you want to be an expert witness: hone your skills to increase your success on the witness stand
(59) In this scenario, the state or local agency must surrender its supervision of the
witness to federal authorities and, according to the USAM, is requested to reimburse the federal government.
Hiding in plain sight: a peek into the Witness Security Program