In a 1993 murder case, Vecchione was accused of withholding a cooperation agreement between himself and a key witness.
Having made it a practice to conceal most of his own politics, Steiner presents a case for withholding his views.
In cases of "withholding treatment", the law hides behind a fig leaf, namely, the idea that this is not a positive act, like administering poison.
The data analysis excluded cases of withholding of life-sustaining treatment as varying levels and modes of life-support may continue to be provided to patients in this category in our unit.
The Justice Department itself requested the dismissal of the terror charge this week in an extraordinary filing that repudiated the strategy of the former lead prosecutor of the cases, whom the department accused of withholding information favorable to the defendants.
In any case, Microsoft has been found guilty of withholding technical information necessary for competitors to design products that work smoothly with Windows.
In that case, victims' lawyers were initially accused of withholding certain information from Garlock - an absurd claim because, as I wrote in an earlier post, the supposedly "withheld" information was already in the company's possession.
And in the most flagrant cases, HUD holds out the possibility of withholding a portion of the billions of dollars of federal funding it hands out each year.
Mr. Vecchione, who is accused of withholding crucial evidence in that case, suffered a catastrophic memory loss.
Dick Spring, the leader of the Labour Party, accused Reynolds of withholding information about the Father Smyth case.
