Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

A witness called by the direct examiner, on the other hand, may only be treated as hostile by that examiner after being permitted to do so by the judge, at the request of that examiner and as a result of the witness being openly antagonistic and / or prejudiced against the opposing party.

They typically begin repeating similar basic questions in a variety of different ways to get different responses, which will then be used against the witness as misstatements of fact later when the attorney wants to make their point.

Consequently, the 16th and 17th centuries were to witness a succession of armed Druze rebellions against the Ottomans, countered by repeated Ottoman punitive expeditions against the Chouf, in which the Druze population of the area was severely depleted and many villages destroyed.

* 1956 – Anita Hill, American attorney and academic, witness at the sexual harassment trial against Clarence Thomas

When the house was ready to pass the Act for dissolution, Mr. Crew who had been as forward as any man in beginning and carrying on the war against the last King, moved, that before they dissolved themselves, they would bear their witness against the horrid murder, as he called it, of the King.

After Jesus slays al-Dajjāl at the Gate of Lud, he will bear witness and reveal that Islam is indeed the true and last word from God to humanity as Yusuf Ali's translation reads: " And there is none of the People of the Book but must believe in him before his death ; and on the Day of Judgment He will be a witness against them.

: Deuteronomy 30: 19 " I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse.

During October 2001, a key witness in the case against the three Irish republicans disappeared.

Selvi vs. State of Karnataka " held that narco, polygraph ( also called Lie-detector ) and brain mapping tests to be unconstitutional as they violate article 20 ( 3 ) of the Constitution ( which says that a person can not be compelled to be a witness against himself ).

According to Gerald of Wales, the only witness to chronicle the expedition, it is a disaster in which money is wasted on alcohol and the Irish chieftains are scorned into uniting against a common enemy.

The murder charges against Jack McGurn were finally dropped because of a lack of evidence and he was just charged with a violation of the Mann Act: he took his girlfriend, Louise Rolfe, who was also the main witness against him and became known as the " Blonde Alibi ", across state lines to marry.

In 887, Leo was put on trial for treason, but no conviction against the ex-patriarch had been secured ; the main witness, Theodore Santabarenos, refused to testify that Photios was behind Leo's removal from power in 883, and after the trial faced the Byzantine emperor's wrath.

In his own evidence, he countered the charge of dealing with Catholics, swearing that " papists have been hired and suborned to witness against me.

He fired White House Counsel John Dean, who went on to testify before the Senate and became the key witness against the president.

Prosecution witness Armando Morales, who shared a cell with Guandique at the U. S. Penitentiary in Kentucky, testified that Guandique was concerned about being transferred between prisons in 2006 because of inmate violence against suspected rapists.

This first occurred in the program's opening season, when a " syndicate " boss kidnapped and threatened to kill the teenage daughter of a friend of Briggs unless he removed a grand jury witness against the mobster from police protective custody.

A late ( c 1400 BC ) witness to an old tradition includes a king of Kaneš called Zipani among seventeen local city-kings who rose up against the Akkadian Naram-Sin ( ruled c. 2254-2218 BC ).

Vosill is able to cure King Quience's condition, and is there to witness as the conspiracy against her is revealed to the King, inadvertently, when news of Ralinge's death reaches the conspirators: Commander Adlain and Dukes Quettil and Ulresile.

* Whittaker Chambers, former communist spy and Federal witness against Alger Hiss

He was the star witness in the Maxi Trial that led to almost 350 Mafia members being sent to prison.

* Madea's Witness Protection centers around Madea and her brother Joe ( both played by Tyler Perry, himself ) dealing with a wealthy white family living in their home, when the nerdy patriarch, George Needleman ( Eugene Levy ) has to enter the witness protection program after being framed for a Ponzi scheme and a Mafia family is out to kill him.

Among the most famous Mafia pentiti is Tommaso Buscetta, the first important state witness who helped Judge Giovanni Falcone to understand the inner workings of Cosa Nostra and described the Sicilian Mafia Commission or Cupola, the leadership of the Sicilian Mafia.

The prosecutor reopened investigations after Gaspare Spatuzza, a Mafia killer turned state witness ( pentito ) in the summer of 2008, admitted to have stolen the Fiat 126 used for the car bomb in the Via D ’ Amelio attack.

In 1987, he won the Premio Bancarella, for his book Il boss è solo, interviewing former Mafia boss Tommaso Buscetta, who had turned pentito ( state witness ).

According to Di Carlo, who became a pentito ( state witness ) in 1996, Caruana was sentenced to death by the high council of the Mafia after he had fallen out of favour.

DeFranco is set to testify against his former Mafia bosses and go into witness protection, but the Justice Department is afraid he will be killed before the trial can begin.

The novel revolves around young attorney Jennifer Parker, as she rises as a successful lawyer after being framed for threatening the chief witness against a Mafia boss by mistakenly giving him a dead canary with a broken neck which in turn leads to a situation that promises to break Her life's dreams.

The movie opens with Joe Tyler ( Matthew Perry ), a process server, a week late, serving a Mafia kingpin known as Fat Charlie ( Joe Viterelli ) with a summons to appear as a witness in court, and his abrasive boss Ray ( Cedric the Entertainer ) ridiculing him for such while complimenting his rival server Tony ( Vincent Pastore ) for serving multiple targets in record time.

The episode portrays a racketeering case in which the main witness, whose safety Stone had personally guaranteed, is murdered by the Russian Mafia.

Bontade visited Berlusconi's villa in Arcore on the outskirts of Milan, according to Antonino Giuffrè, a mafioso who was a key aide to Mafia kingpin Bernardo Provenzano but turned state witness after his arrest in April 2002.

Their artistic rationale is given to the witness of unreason.

And it would seem that history is a witness to this truth.

And this is only natural -- witness the haste with which modern man gobbles the latest `` wonder drug ''.

However, a witness with a high level of empathic concern is likely to assume personal responsibility entirely regardless of the number of bystanders.

Rieux is like a witness who exercises restraint when called to testify about a crime ; he describes what the characters said and did, without speculating about their thoughts and feelings, although he does offer generalized assessments of the shifting mood of the town as a whole.

Only six leaves of M survive ; however, the printed edition of Gelenius ( G ) is considered to be based on M, making it an important witness to the textual tradition of the Res Gestae.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

After Christians in Ephesus first wrote to their counterparts recommending Apollos to them, he went to Achaia where Paul names him as an apostle ( 1 Cor 4: 6, 9-13 ) Given that Paul only saw himself as an apostle ' untimely born ' ( 1 Cor 15: 8 ) it is certain that Apollos became an apostle in the regular way ( as a witness to the risen Lord and commissioned by Jesus-1 Cor 15: 5-9 ; 1 Cor 9: 1 ).< ref > So the Alexandrian recension ; the text in < sup > 38 </ sup > and Codex Bezae indicate that Apollos went to Corinth.

" Both from the confession of the evil spirits and from the daily witness of His works, it is manifest, then, and let none presume to doubt it, that the Savior has raised His own body, and that He is very Son of God, having His being from God as from a Father, Whose Word and Wisdom and Whose Power He is.

Rather, the critical focus is on the witness to the religiosity of the Maccabean time period.

It is commonly accepted that the “ Redeemer ” of 19: 25 is the same person as the witness of 16: 19.

Jacopo was also a witness to and wrote an account of the sack of Rome, which is one of the most important historical documents recounting that event.

Located on a hill ( phnom ), it is currently one of the most endangered of the monuments, having become a favorite perch for tourists eager to witness a glorious sundown at Angkor.

* In Iliad Menelaos kills a minor character, Pylaimenes, in combat ; but later he is still alive to witness the death of his son.

* If the Venerable was not a martyr – all non-martyrs are " confessors " as they " confessed " or bore witness to their faith by how they lived their lives – it must be proven that a miracle has taken place by his or her intercession: that is, that God has shown a sign that the person is enjoying the Beatific Vision by God performing a miracle in response to the Blessed's prayers.

In law, cross-examination is the interrogation of a witness called by one's opponent.

In the United States federal courts, a cross-examining attorney is typically not permitted to ask questions that do not pertain to the testimony offered during direct examination, but most state courts do permit a lawyer to cross-examine a witness on matters not raised during direct examination.

Since a witness called by the opposing party is presumed to be hostile, cross-examination does permit leading questions.

It is sometimes referred to as an art form, because of the need for an attorney to know precisely how to elicit the testimony from the opposing witness that will help, not hinder, their client's case.