Parker called for abolition of the indiscriminate or uncontrolled right of taking depositions before officers of the court who had no authority to limit testimony.

With its power to investigate, the Senate can paralyze the Secretary by keeping him in a state of perpetual testimony before committees, as it did with Dean Acheson.

Most cases that go to trial are carefully prepared through a discovery process that aids in the review of evidence and testimony before it is presented to judge or jury.

On November 15, 2007, attention was brought once again to Barry Bonds as he was indicted by a federal grand jury for perjury and obstruction of justice in connection to his testimony before the grand jury regarding the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative ( BALCO ), a San Francisco Bay area lab known to be involved in the distribution of steroids to professional athletes.

In July 1991, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, in the context of the outing of his press aide Pete Williams, dismissed the idea that gays posed a security risk as " a bit of an old chestnut " in testimony before the House Budget Committee.

Most reports on ECHELON focus on satellite interception ; testimony before the European Parliament indicated that separate but similar UK-US systems are in place to monitor communication through undersea cables, microwave transmissions and other lines.

" However, Beckingham and Huntingford have a much higher opinion of Álvares testimony, stating that not only is it " incomparably more detailed than any earlier account of Ethiopia that has survived ; it is also a very important source for Ethiopian history, for it was written just before the country was devastated by the Muslim Somali and pagan Galla invasions of the second quarter of the sixteenth century.

* 1976 – In testimony before a United States Senate subcommittee, Lockheed Corporation president Carl Kotchian admits that the company had paid out approximately $ 3 million in bribes to the office of Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka.

Guantanamo captive Abdul Razzaq Hekmati requested Ismail Khan's testimony, when he was called before a Combatant Status Review Tribunal.

* Transcript of James Comey ’ s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 15, 2007

In the era before blood and DNA testing, Landis relied on witness testimony and awarded the child to Ryan.

Thomas testified that she does not have a Kazaa account, but her testimony was complicated by the fact that she had replaced her computer's hard drive after the alleged downloading took place, and later than she originally said in a deposition before the trial.

In testimony before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations a former US State Department official who had been a member of the American Commission at Paris, testified that the United Kingdom and France had simply gone ahead and arranged the world to suit themselves.

In testimony before the Venetian Inquisition, Edward de Vere was said to be fluent in Italian.

Users and supporters included dissidents in totalitarian countries ( some affecting letters to Zimmermann have been published, some of which have been included in testimony before the US Congress ), civil libertarians in other parts of the world ( see Zimmermann's published testimony in various hearings ), and the ' free communications ' activists who called themselves cypherpunks ( who provided both publicity and distribution ), and, decades later, CryptoParty, who did much the same via Twitter.

Jurisprudential developments in the American law of perjury have revolved around the facilitation of " perjury prosecutions and thereby enhance the reliability of testimony before federal courts and grand juries.

* Barry Bonds has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury in 2003 as part of the BALCO steroid scandal, in which he denied using any performance-enhancing drugs.

In a BBC documentary, called the Death of Yugoslavia, and later in his testimony before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia during the trial of Slobodan Milošević, Yugoslav official Borisav Jović revealed that the Bosnian Serb army arose from the Yugoslav army forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On 5 May 2003 Bockarie was killed in Liberia, allegedly on orders from President Charles Taylor, who feared Bockarie ’ s testimony before the Special Court.

The issue decided in the case was whether a journalist could refuse to " appear and testify before state and Federal grand juries " basing the refusal on the belief that such appearance and testimony " abridges the freedom of speech and press guaranteed by the First Amendment.

Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7-8, Post proved " a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue " and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. Pou, a Democrat presumed to be an enthusiastic supporter of Palmer, congratulated him: " I feel that you have followed your sense of duty absolutely.

A turning point in Kazan's career came with his testimony as a " friendly witness " before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, which cost him the respect of many liberal friends and colleagues.

Biskind describes an episode during the first week of shooting, where Beatty was angered at something Kazan said: " The star lashed out at the spot where he knew Kazan was most vulnerable, the director's friendly testimony before the HUAC.

Kazan remained controversial in some circles until his death for testimony he gave before the House Committee on Un-American Activities ( HUAC ) in 1952, a period that many, such as journalist Michael Mills, feel was " the most controversial period in Hollywood history.

In testimony to the House Financial Services Committee in 2009, Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Board Chairman said he " would not think that any hedge fund or private equity fund would become a systemically-critical firm individually ".

The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported that on August 7, 2007, a Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) agent testified at the Holy Land Foundation trial that CAIR was " listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee ", that it had received money from the Foundation ( conflicting with Nihad Awad's Congressional testimony ), and that co-founders Awad and Omar Ahmad were " listed as individual members the Brotherhood Palestine Committee in America.

On October 23, 2008, during former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony in House hearings on the Economic crisis of 2008, Representative John Yarmuth referred to Greenspan as one of " three Bill Buckners.

After a " bitterly contested case " that " involved over two years of discovery, five weeks of trial, the testimony of 35 witnesses ( 19 live, 16 by deposition ), and over 300 exhibits ," ( quoting the Federal Circuit ) the District Court held Gore's patents to be invalid.

" As noted above, in the United States ( especially in practice under the Federal Rules of Evidence ), voir dire can also refer to examination of the background of a witness to assess their qualification or fitness to give testimony on a given subject.

Quoting T. Allison, Assistant to the Board of the Federal Reserve System in his October 8, 1998 testimony before the U. S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Committee on Banking and Financial Services.

Two " psychic surgeons " provided testimony in a Federal Trade Commission trial that, to their knowledge, the organic matter supposedly removed from the patients usually consists of animal tissue and clotted blood.

After his testimony, Andrew is given a few minutes to say farewell to his grandmother before being placed in the Federal Witness Protection Program.

Based upon the testimony of former associates, Federal prosecutors have indicted Bulger for 19 murders.

NRB has presented testimony on religious liberty issues before committees of both the House of Representatives and the U. S. Senate, and the Federal Communications Commission, and has contributed to the drafting of federal legislation protecting religious freedom.

In testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) disclosed and reported that the Matricula Consular card is inherently unreliable and unverifiable as an identification card and is highly vulnerable to fraud, regardless of its security features.

After lengthy testimony the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) decided to grant the AM 1500 license to the Zion-Benton Broadcasting Company of Zion ( principals: Billie Bicket and family ), and the station became WZBN, signing on the air on September 19, 1967.

( Daubert, 509 U. S. at 593-594 ) Expert testimony that would have passed the Frye test is now excluded under the more stringent requirements of Federal Rules of Evidence as construed by Daubert.

Federal prosecutors charged Jacobson with perjury ( for false testimony during the civil proceedings ) and mail and wire fraud ( for the use of the letters and the telephone system as part of his fraudulent practice ).

:* Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, which held that Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence did not incorporate the Frye " general acceptance " test as a basis for assessing the admissibility of scientific expert testimony ;

The application of Federal Rule of Evidence 702 to proposed expert testimony can often be an uncertain process, and is best conducted in such a manner that litigants have a reasonable opportunity to locate experts who meet the rule's requirements.

In Daubert, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1923 Frye test was superseded by the 1975 Federal Rules of Evidence, specifically Rule 702 governing expert testimony.

Ironically, Daubert has not appeared to further the Federal Rules philosophy of admitting generally all relevant testimony, and specifically of relaxing the traditional barriers to ' opinion ' testimony.

Synthetic CDOs also expanded under the tenure of Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan who later expounded on the previously unrecognized risk of these devices in his testimony to a Congressional investigative committee on April 7, 2010.

As a result of a surprise defense motion that all testimony about the alleged " secret of the atomic bomb " be impounded, Federal Judge Irving Kaufman at first made all spectators and news reporters leave the room when Greenglass began testifying about his " secrets ".

* Sydney Morning Herald article on Morle's testimony to the Federal Court of Australia December 9 2004

Abstract: Reviews key words in Arthur F. Burns's testimony on various occasions before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress while he served as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1970 – 78.