If you testify, you're going to get thrown out of Borough Park.' " A few months later, Kellner spoke with Dov Hikind, the assemblyman who represents Borough Park.
Natalie Hadad, his best friend, said, "People would call him and say, 'If you testify, bad things are going to happen to your parents.
"If you testify," Judge Jack A. Thompson said at a hearing last year on the prisoner's request for a new trial, "I will be compelled to report you to the state bar.
"Understand," the judge added, "that if you testify and if things should turn out badly for you, both with respect to this hearing and the trial, you will be forever precluded from ever arguing that it was against your best interests or a violation of any rights to enable you to testify".
"They could offer some sort of inducement: 'If you testify truthfully, we will give you this benefit,'" said James Cohen, a professor of criminal law at Fordham Law School.
The police say to each, "If you testify, you'll only serve a year in jail and the other guy will serve ten.
Mr. Shemin, noting that the company was deluged with requests for withdrawals during an era of high interest rates, testified that "if you are trying to make a significant dent in a cash-flow problem, you don't necessarily only take one large action".
Mr. Vecchione repeatedly threatened to hit him and said, "If you don't testify you're going to be in jail a long time," Mr. Santos said.
-- If you are going to testify, Mr. Adams, you will be sworn.
This section will also require you to indicate if you are willing to testify against the realtor at a hearing and if you are willing to attend mediation to resolve the complaint.
