Sentence examples for chose not to testify from inspiring English sources

Tostee chose not to testify before the crown concluded its evidence on Friday.

Sergeant Martinez, who could have faced the death penalty if he had been convicted, chose not to testify.

The issue has never been fully resolved and has stoked bitterness not only because some perpetrators of apartheid-era crimes won amnesty, but because many others chose not to testify and were never prosecuted.

Mrs. Kimes had a chance to tell her story to the jury during the trial, but chose not to testify after Justice Uviller ruled that prosecutors could ask her about a 1986 conviction for enslaving a group of Mexicans.

Because the officers chose not to testify before the grand jury that ultimately charged them each with two counts of second-degree murder and one of reckless endangerment, the prosecutors have no direct knowledge of what the only living witnesses to all of the events of that shooting will say.

"We had her in town to testify, we expected her to testify, we prepared her to testify; she chose not to testify.

"Very frequently, workers will choose not to testify because they're afraid, very soundly, of repercussions on the job," Ms. Quinn said.

Colonel Lind asked Private Manning — who during the pretrial phase had read a lengthy statement confessing to most of the leaking with which he had been charged and explaining his motivations — to verify that he had chosen not to testify in his defense.

He had chosen not to testify at the trial, which left a number of matters unexplained amid public disquiet.

Asked by Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour if he would testify in the final part of the trial's sentencing phase, Holmes replied: "I choose not to testify".

Fisher chose not to have Dakotah testify, since juveniles tend to make poor witnesses — they are easily misled or intimidated and often give inconsistent, idealized accounts of their own actions.