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The most interesting "revelation" in the book that Mr Bush took cocaine at Camp David while his father was president does not quite pass the smell test; the witness has already recanted her story.

At that point, he had already decided to recant in print, telling his readers: "I am sorry to say I consider that review grossly unfair and regrettably inaccurate.

Galileo was forced to recant his heliocentric views because the Roman Catholic Church had already embraced the Ptolemaic system as more consistent with Biblical revelation and with man's dignity as God's creation.

The tribunal, which had already fallen off its perch by taking evidence from witnesses who later recanted - and permitting the prolonged imprisonment of pro-Syrian Lebanese officers without charge - apparently thought that the Lebanese authorities could arrest the four wanted men.

Sly recanted his story on YouTube before the documentary came out, but Davies said the team had already confirmed the information with an additional anonymous source she called "utterly credible and well-placed".

By 10 45 a.m., she had already made a second statement to a second detective, altering her story: the sex at the party was now "consensual"; she "likes" Mr. Crooks; "Can't a ho," she said, "change her ways?" That same day, she signed a statement recanting the rapes at the party.

Ruffin said that seven of the nine witnesses at Davis's 1991 trial had since recanted.

She said one witness had recanted and admitted that he had accepted money to withdraw his testimony.

Sotos and Ekl claimed that some of the witnesses who spoke to the Northwestern team had recanted, or recanted their recantations.

He told his watch commander that the alleged rape victim had recanted.

Davis maintained his innocence, and many of the prosecution's witnesses had recanted.