He said that the officers should have known they did not have to accept the legal advice given to them to change their statements.
Looking nervous and flanked by government officials, they said that they regretted their previous "lies" and that no pressure had been exerted on them to change their statements.
They said that they regretted their previous "lies" and that no pressure had been exerted on them to change their statements.
A group of senior officers instructed junior officers to change their statements about what happened, often to stress misbehaviour by supporters, and remove criticism of the police.
We've had six or seven cases where, during their hearing of their case, the victim either changed their statement or didn't appear as a witness.
The biology teachers changed their statement, said Wayne Carley, the association's executive director, "to avoid taking a religious position" that could offend believers.
During the trial, several witnesses withdrew or changed their statements, resulting in judges releasing the defendant - named in court as Ralf S - from pre-trial detention in May.
But its rollout has been delayed, and officials have changed their statements about its mission and makeup.
On climate change, their statements became increasingly heated, accusatory, and bizarre.
As one professor said, "If a person is already convinced, you can't change their minds," a statement validated by the numerous cases of students who took biology and evolution courses but refused to see the evidence, constantly searching for gaps in reasoning and criticizing the small number of fossil remains that evolutionary biologists use to try to reconstruct the human species' past.
