Initial tests showed that the ship was able to make the turn described by eyewitnesses without capsizing.
"It's just classic eyewitness identification without any corroboration," Freedman told me.
On Cohen's theory, if a "vital eyewitness has died without disclosing what he saw", the prosecution's case would lack maximal weight and must fail, and this is irrespective, it seems, of how much other evidence is adduced in the case (Cohen 1986: 642; cf. Nance 2008: 280, n. 7, noting that this conclusion is not easy to reconcile with actual criminal litigation).
It is clear to me that based on various eyewitness accounts that without these two heroes, Agent Bailey and Agent Griner, many lives would have been lost".
His conviction in a Munich courtroom, which Demjanjuk was appealing when he died at 91 last year, was the first achieved without eyewitness testimony to a direct role in the killings.
Carney cites the Arab League, Doctors Without Borders, eyewitness accounts and videos, and media accounts.
I was wrongfully charged and convicted of first-degree murder without an eyewitness.
It is a slaying without a body, a crime without physical evidence, and an abduction without eyewitnesses, even though it occurred in broad daylight in Manhattan.
A critical issue for developmental psychology is how to obtain accurate and complete eyewitness memory reports from preschoolers without offering suggestions that might result in false allegations.
Prosecutors said it was the first case in New York, and one of only a handful in the nation, in which murder convictions were won without a body, an eyewitness, a confession or any forensic evidence.
