Although called as a hostile witness by prosecutors, Mr. Abbate testified that, from what he knew, he thought it was Mr. Schwarz who had taken Mr. Louima away from the police station's front desk.
Even so, he seems to regard the legal system as part of the government bureaucracy that needs to be made more honest and efficient, rather than something that should be a power in its own right to rival the Kremlin.Besides, even the modest reforms now being considered may not survive hostile lobbying from the prosecutors, Russia's self-styled champions of legality and state interests.
"The 'N.S.U.' members saw themselves as a unified killing command which carried out its concerted assassinations driven by racist motivations and hostile attitudes towards the state," the prosecutors' statement said.
The judges rejected the motion on Wednesday, saying that Ms. Campbell, a hostile witness, had been "uncooperative" and that prosecutors could not be expected to provide such a statement from her.
The prosecutors treated Mr. Kozicki as a hostile witness, saying his words on the witness stand deviated from an earlier sworn statement to the authorities.
A second son of a former Iraqi diplomat in New York has been charged with helping Iraqi intelligence officials find dissidents in the United States who were hostile to the government of Saddam Hussein, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
Although Mr. Christensen is testifying for the prosecution, prosecutors have occasionally treated him as a hostile witness, contending that his loyalties were divided between Mrs. Astor and Mr. Marshall, and that he did things she would not have approved of.
Encouraged by an imperial and ecclesiastical faction hostile to Chrysostom's strict moral reforms, Severian served as prosecutor and judge of the patriarch at the Synod of the Oak, July 403.
Erdogan's transformation of Turkey first started with accession negotiations with the EU in the hope of reforming the hostile judiciary, securing a chance to appoint loyalist judges and prosecutors.
The prosecutor, Olivier Tcherkassof, acknowledged the words were uttered in an unusually hostile context, although he denounced the "intolerable" sentiments expressed.
