Back then, outlaws blew into town and robbed banks, working barehanded without fear of leaving evidence behind.
At any time victims may withdraw from the process for fear of giving evidence in court, fear that the process will be too distressing, fear of being disbelieved or judged, or as a result of delays from start to finish".
And Danner argues that torture has delayed the reckonings we sought and deserved after September 11th: the fear of tainted evidence and, perhaps more, shame, have made it harder to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others into court, which is where they belong.
De Frietas left notes saying she had committed suicide because of her fear of giving evidence in court.
So as people search for relatives, they fear, the chain of evidence that will be necessary to prosecute the ones responsible is lost.
If the reason for the delay has anything to do with the conditions of his interrogation (fears of tainted evidence, for example, or of embarrassment), then torture, conceived as a way to bring Al Qaeda to justice, most certainly did not work.
Jack Straw's hesitant response to the discovery of Konrad Kalejs, a Latvian war crimes suspect, in an old people's home in December 1999 underlined fears that lack of evidence was not unrelated to absence of political will.
The imperial household agency have reportedly made archaeological sites in the former capital of Nara off-limits because officials fears the discovery of evidence that emperor's Korean ties are far stronger than has long been taught in Japanese schools.
Which of us hasn't promoted, through fear-mongering, manipulation of evidence, and outright lying, a war against someone who was of no threat to us?
Republican pundits have pointed to Ford's fear of planes as evidence that she may be trying to delay Kavanaugh's confirmation, apparently unaware that people with a fear of flying can still get on a plane.
