Sentence examples for if they testified from inspiring English sources

"All the people we tried to call were afraid if they testified, they'd be prosecuted," Mr. Genson said.

Lance Armstrong's lawyers said the United States Anti-Doping Agency was offering cyclists a "sweetheart deal" if they testified or provided evidence that Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France winner, cheated by doping.

Kickers were to be recruited as witnesses and promised they would not be tried for murder for admitting punching or kicking the officer, if they testified against those who used knives or machetes to stab Blakelock.

The subpoenas would help overcome the F.D.A. officials' concerns that if they testified, they might violate laws preventing them from disclosing trade secrets of the companies the F.D.A. regulates, Mr. Johnson, the committee spokesman, said.

The executive chairman of the ATP, Étienne de Villiers, and his general counsel warned executives at the sports marketing giant IMG that their business would suffer if they testified against the ATP in an antitrust lawsuit, according to a letter written by IMG's senior counsel.

"But they can't remember things, they contradicted statements they've made to the police and two negotiated plea agreements [for shorter sentences if they testified against Dewani].

People who take public and irreversible positions in a criminal case may be confronted by their own words if they testify at a trial.

Prosecutors commonly collar people they suspect of being part of a conspiracy, threaten them with all sorts of charges and decades in prison, then offer them leniency in a plea deal if they testify against others.

"Anybody who is really under severe scrutiny," said Jack Bray, a prominent white-collar defense lawyer at the King & Spalding office in Washington, "as so many of these Enron people would be, is absolutely going off the high board without looking down into the pool if they testify before Congress.

Arlacchi noted that Italy, his native country, has pioneered a new program in which such women are allowed to stay in the country if they testify against mobster smugglers.

"If they testify will they be able to withstand a vigorous cross examination which often results in an attack on their character and the reliving of horrific events?" she asked.