Those wanting to hear what happened in the Second World War will not be able to rely for ever on the direct testimony of survivors.
For example, sixty-nine paragraphs of the written direct testimony of James Barksdale, then chief executive officer of Netscape and plaintiffs' first witness, contained large amounts of inadmissible hearsay, oftentimes multiple levels of hearsay.
In contrast, for Diario Popular and Página 12, I did not find any direct testimony from scholars or other professionals in the field of ECE.
In its case against Clemens, the government has the advantage of direct testimony from McNamee; in the Bonds case Anderson's loyalty has deprived the prosecution of the hammer it may need for a conviction.
Important potential witnesses are dead, and the court relies heavily on direct testimony from witnesses.
That revelation, made in a hearing in Federal District Court in White Plains, at which a judge set a trial date of June 14 , 2010 for the defendants, indicates that prosecutors will probably have to rely more on the direct testimony of a government informant.
Bianca Jagger, Maryam A'dobo, and M.I.A. were to read direct testimonies of Tamils, for whom the violence bled into mind, body, and soul.
A former senior executive with the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, Mr. Kumar told the jury in his direct testimony how for years he passed along confidential information about his clients.
Mr. Taylor's long and direct testimony is unusual for international war crimes trials, where only a few defendants have spent even short periods on the stand.
Insisting that the terrorists could never be made available for direct testimony, the Justice Department tried to fashion a compromise last year in which written summaries of interrogation statements could be presented to a jury.
