For Tom Horn, it turned out, had a number of rancher and cowboy witnesses ready and willing to swear with straight faces that he had been in Bates Hole the day of the killing.

`` I am satisfied that in the Selden case had this power existed and this course ( been ) pursued, it would have shortened the depositions of some of the experts nearly one-half and of some of the other witnesses thereto more than that ''.

In the afternoon, defense attorneys began the presentation of their cases with opening statements, some of which had been deferred until after the government had called witnesses and presented its case.

I had had no wedding ceremony, no witnesses, no certificate of marriage, but I had all the joy that goes with them.

Evidence in the case included testimony from witnesses that Alford had said after the death of the victim that he had killed the individual.

According to Time magazine, one of the witnesses, Angela Wright, may not have been considered credible on the issue of sexual harassment because she had been fired from the EEOC by Thomas.

A frustrated judge in an English ( adversarial ) court finally asked a barrister after witnesses had produced conflicting accounts, ' Am I never to hear the truth?

In it, they cited six US citizens as witnesses, stating they had made sworn depositions regarding the incident before public notaries in the US.

By the time the inquiry had retired to write up its findings, it had interviewed over 900 witnesses, over seven years, making it the biggest investigation in British legal history.

Although several witnesses came to the conclusion that the attacks could not be the work of dogs or coyotes because they had not eaten the victim, this conclusion is incorrect.

In the decrees on marriage ( twenty-fourth session ) the excellence of the celibate state was reaffirmed ( see also clerical celibacy ), concubinage condemned and the validity of marriage made dependent upon the wedding taking place before a priest and two witnesses, although the lack of a requirement for parental consent ended a debate that had proceeded from the 12th century.

Later, when his crew refused to let Syn leave, Syn and Mipps slipped away in one of the ship's boats ; unknown to Syn, Mipps had arranged a convenient " accident " in the ship's powder hold with an exploding barrel of gunpowder, eliminating witnesses of Syn's piratic acts.

Each team had seven members – one judge, two members each from the district court and the local government election authorities and two witnesses each representing the plaintiff ( Pan-Blue Coalition ) and the defendant ( Pan-Green Coalition ).

Although originally the new lunar crescent had to be observed and certified by witnesses, the moment of the new moon is now approximated arithmetically.

# " Bringing to justice thousands of victims and giving them a voice ", pointing out the large number of witnesses that had been brought before the Tribunal ;

This meaning survived into the early nineteenth century: during a case heard in London in 1824 regarding the legal validity of a marriage ceremony consisting of nothing more than the groom placing a ring on the bride's finger before witnesses, a court official commented that the ceremony " amounted to nothing more than a broomstick marriage, which the parties had it in their power to dissolve at will.

Mr. al-Kidd's lawyers say the then-attorney general encouraged authorities after 9 / 11 to arrest potential suspects as material witnesses when they lacked probable cause to believe the suspects had committed a crime.

While in San Diego, witnesses told the FBI he and Hazmi had a close relationship with Anwar Al Awlaki, an imam who served as their spiritual advisor.

Two witnesses who had originally testified in her grand jury indictment had died by the time she was found and brought to trial: a plumber who had sold materials used in the bomb had picked Soliah out of a lineup as one of the buyers, and a bomb expert had stated the explosive could have been built in Soliah's apartment.

`` Unfortunately '', says Chief Postal Inspector David H. Stephens, who has prosecuted many device quacks, `` the ghouls who trade on the hopes of the desperately ill often cannot be successfully prosecuted because the patients who are the chief witnesses die before the case is called up in court ''.

The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.

If a ) testimonies conflict one another, b ) there are a small number of witnesses, c ) the speaker has no integrity, d ) the speaker is overly hesitant or bold, or e ) the speaker is known to have motives for lying, then the epistemologist has reason to be skeptical of the speaker's claims.

This geographic structure is foreshadowed in Acts 1: 8, where Jesus says " You shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem ( chs.

Most Protestant denominations deny the need of maintaining episcopal continuity with the early Church, holding that the role of the apostles was that, having been chosen directly by Jesus as witnesses of his resurrection, they were to be the " special instruments of the Holy Spirit in founding and building up the Church ".

Or there can be corroborating evidence related to a certain source, such as what makes an author think a certain way due to the evidence that was supplied by witnesses or objects.

Expert witnesses may be subpoenaed ( issued with a witness summons ), although this is normally a formality to avoid court date clashes.

The 2008 film Cloverfield purports to be video footage shot by witnesses of a monster attacking New York City, and recovered by the US Army as evidence.

During the Azusa Street meetings, according to witnesses who wrote about them, blind, crippled or other sick people would be healed.

Schneider uses the concept of the " objective historian " to suggest that this could be used as an aid in assessing what makes an historian suitable to be an expert witnesses under the Daubert standard in the United States.

The practice in the time of Gamaliel II ( c. 100 CE ) was for witnesses to select the appearance of the moon from a collection of drawings that depicted the crescent in a variety of orientations, only a few of which could be valid in any given month.

Holt's son Nicholas Holt said that after 37 years there were few surviving witnesses and no new evidence would be presented.

The coroner gives notice to near relatives, those entitled to examine witnesses and those whose conduct is likely to be scrutinised.

Individuals with an interest in the proceedings, such as relatives of the deceased, individuals appearing as witnesses, and organisations or individuals who may face some responsibility in the death of the individual, may be represented by lawyers at the discretion of the coroner.

The Jewish oral law states that capital punishment would only be applicable if two men were caught in the act of anal sex, if there were two witnesses to the act, if the two witnesses warned the men involved that they committed a capital offense, and the two men-or the willing party, in case of rape-subsequently acknowledged the warning but continued to engage in the prohibited act anyway.

Rockefeller's actual testimony, proffered after the judge made him wait through several cases and witnesses, proved to be anticlimactic, as he professed almost no knowledge of Standard Oil's corporate structure or assets.

Asked to explain herself she insisted on first summoning witnesses and after disclosing the rape called on him and them for vengeance, a plea that could not be ignored, as she was speaking to the chief magistrate of Rome.

According to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who assembled to be witnesses at the birth of Apollo were responding to a public occasion in the rites of a dynasty, where the authenticity of the child must be established beyond doubt from the first moment.

Men in Black ( MIB ), in American popular culture and in UFO conspiracy theories, are men dressed in black suits who claim to be government agents who harass or threaten UFO witnesses to keep them quiet about what they have seen.

A text-type referred to as the " Caesarean text-type " and thought to have included witnesses such as Codex Koridethi and minuscule 565, can today be described neither as " Caesarean " nor as a text-type as was previously thought.

The site must be guarded and witnesses protected.

Most witnesses are protected by the United States Marshals Service, while protection of incarcerated witnesses is the duty of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

In both criminal and civil matters involving protected witnesses, the U. S. Marshals cooperate fully with local law enforcement and court authorities to bring witnesses to justice or to have

Around 17 percent of protected witnesses who have committed a crime will be caught committing another crime, compared to the almost 41 percent of parolees who return to crime.

The Duke is also thought to have lied about his whereabouts when the Palace at Versailles was stormed in the early hours of the morning on the 6th of October, having stated he was at the General Assembly in Paris, yet several witnesses ( including the Marquise de la Tour du Pin ) saw him lead the bloodthirsty mob to a staircase leading to the Queen's bedroom, protected by Swiss Guards.

The weak and sick are borne on litters, and are protected against the attacks of the Sadducees ; they must be provided with food, for witnesses were bound to journey even on the Sabbath ( 1: 9 ).

Rogers played Claire Gregory, a socialite that is protected after she witnesses a murder.

The Warrant may grant immense investigatory powers, including summoning witnesses under oath, offering of indemnities, seizing of documents and other evidence ( sometimes including those normally protected, such as classified information ), holding hearings in camera if necessary and — in a few cases — compelling all government officials to aid in the execution of the Commission.

Polybius remarks: “ Greek statesmen, if entrusted with a single talent, though protected by ten checking-clerks, as many seals and twice as many witnesses, yet cannot be induced to keep faith ; whereas among the Romans, in their magistracies and embassies, men have the handling of a great amount of money, and yet from pure respect for their oath keep their faith intact .” ³

There is an agreement between the police and the Department of Corrections to ensure that protected witnesses receive appropriate protection from that department.

The full text of a diploma was engraved on the outer side of the so-called tabula 1, while the outer side of tabula 2 displayed the names of 7 witnesses, their seals covered and protected by metal strips ( such seals have rarely survived, being of organic material ).

On 10 March 2010, the weekly ICTY press briefing announced that Šešelj was scheduled to appear in court on 20 April 2010 for contempt of court for allegedly disclosing court restricted information on 11 protected witnesses.

In July 2009 he was found guilty of contempt on similar charges involving two protected witnesses and was sentenced to fifteen months in jail.

Within weeks of sending that letter in the fall of 1995, Lehder was whisked away into the night, according to several protected witnesses at the Mesa Unit in Arizona.

U. S. Senator Marco Rubio and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called for an independent investigation into the crash, calling on the international community to " demand that the facts concerning Paya ’ s death be accurately determined and that the surviving witnesses be protected ".