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An attorney says a 25-year-old woman fatally shot in Baltimore County was a witness in a double homicide case.
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Read More »Attorney: Maryland woman shot was witness in double homicide
Prosecutor-as-witness move sinks case against Mo. governor
Attorneys defending Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in a criminal case used a highly unusual tactic when they sought to the call the prosecutor as a witness as they attacked her handling of the case.
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Read More »Guidelines for deposition and trial testimony for clients and witnesses
Review documents, don't get rattled and qualify, qualify, qualify
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Read More »2 tiny words bring 5 long years in Washington Co. witness retaliation case
HAGERSTOWN — Two little words have earned a convicted assailant five more years in prison. The words were “Bang, bang.” Devon Davis said them to the victim’s mother as he was led from a Hagerstown courtroom by sheriff’s deputies in ...
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Read More »Lawyer on trial, accused of coaching witnesses to lie
CHICAGO — The question about how far lawyers can go in providing clients the strongest defense underlies a rare trial coming to a close in Chicago, where prosecutors accuse a prominent attorney of coaching defendants and witnesses to outright lie. ...
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Read More »CIA leak case about-face: Feds don’t want reporter on stand
After pushing for years to get testimony from a recalcitrant New York Times reporter in a CIA leak case, prosecutors now want to bar journalist James Risen from testifying at all.
Read More »1st witness testifies in Gulf oil spill trial
NEW ORLEANS — BP failed to implement a new safety plan on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig even though the company realized a blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was its greatest danger, an expert witness for people and ...
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Read More »Testimony ends without Clemens taking stand
WASHINGTON — His large frame towering over the microphone, Roger Clemens leaned forward at the podium and declared to the judge in a deep voice with a Texas twang: “Yes sir, I am not testifying.” Minutes earlier, four prosecutors representing ...
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Read More »Ex-Edwards aide back on the witness stand at trial
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The aide who helped former presidential candidate John Edwards hide his mistress’s pregnancy is back on the witness stand, telling a jury about money that flowed from a wealthy supporter. Former aide Andrew Young testified Tuesday for ...
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Read More »More scrutiny for class action expert witnesses
WASHINGTON – In the year since the U.S. Supreme Court made it tougher for large groups of plaintiffs to prove that they should proceed in a class action, courts have been taking a harder look at a key type of ...
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