Before the crime, the testimony of other teenagers shows that Mr. Carneal warned many people that "something big" was going to happen.
Ingrid is a murderer, but she is also a painter, and we are nudged toward the view that her crime was testimony to some lifelong scheme of creative female empowerment.
And Briony will have committed her crime of false testimony.
The only direct evidence linking Mr. Elmore to the crime was the testimony of a jailhouse informant, James Gilliam.
His attorneys had filed an appeal challenging ballistics evidence linking Davis to the crime, and eyewitness testimony identifying Davis as the killer.
The three-week trial featured numerous former organized crime figures whose testimony painted a picture of the violent life of a New York Mafioso.
For years, authorities and individuals have known that there was more to crime than just testimony: that the scene of the crime, or a murder weapon, or even a few drops of blood, could also bear witness to the truth.
But, if insanity-defense tests are interpreted sensibly to excuse people who genuinely lacked the ability to reason morally at the time of the crime, and expert testimony is treated with appropriate caution, the criminal justice system can reasonably decide whom to blame and punish.
In a compact, chilling interrogation scene, the sheriff and the district attorney force the pickup truck's owner, a soggy marshmallow of a man named Shawn Allen Berry Toby Proctorr), to confess to his role in the crime, getting crucial testimony that leads to the death-penalty convictions of the other two killers.
Last month, Judge Neera Walsh ordered a new trial for Rivera after the sole witness Orlando Lopez, a 12-year-old at the time of the alleged crime, recanted his testimony concerning the shooting of 16-year-old Felix Valentin.
