Sentence examples for identification testimony from inspiring English sources

"Identification" testimony is the weakest form of evidence, especially when given by a lay witness unfamiliar with the accused.

Anything that can go wrong in a capital case can go wrong in any criminal case, be it incompetent counsel, faulty identification testimony or failure of the prosecutor to reveal exculpatory evidence.

Even so, he received a lesser sentence because the judge believed that his confession spared his victims the public embarrassment of identification and testimony in court.

In 1984, when he was 19, Darryl, an African-American man, was convicted of a crime he didn't commit, the rape and murder of a young white woman in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on the basis of a tentative eyewitness identification and the pressured testimony of a girlfriend who later recanted.

It thus becomes a source of identification rather than a testimony of immaculate transcendence.

Because of bad lawyers, mistaken identifications or corrupt jailhouse testimony, more death-row inmates had been freed than executed during the time Illinois allowed capital punishment.

His conviction was based solely on identification evidence with no supporting testimony.

In the Nyāya tradition, four such pramāṇas are recognised: perception (pratyakṣa), inference (anumāna), 'analogical identification' or 'comparison' (upamāna) and testimony (śabda).

"Dennis' conviction was based solely on shaky eyewitness identifications from three witnesses, the testimony of another man who said he saw Dennis with a gun the night of the murder, and a description of clothing seized from the house of Dennis' father that the police subsequently lost before police photographed or catalogued it," the judge said.

One of the first things Mr. Newton said at the news conference was how bad he felt for the victim, identified as "V J," though his conviction had rested largely on her identification of him and on her trial testimony.

It was a harrowing testimony.