Sentence examples for impact testimony from inspiring English sources
Judge Woodlock allowed five family members of murder victims to give impact testimony — statements that were short but unrelenting.
Officer Simonds was told by prosecutors in the McVeigh trial that he should not give his impact testimony: "The judge and jury had heard so much, it might have backfired, they told me.
Prosecutors said they are reviewing lists of survivors and relatives of the dead to choose which ones will offer victim impact testimony.
In response to the trials of the conspirators being moved out-of-state, the Victim Allocution Clarification Act of 1997 was signed on March 20 , 1997by President Clinton to allow the victims of the bombing (and the victims of any other future acts of violence) the right to observe trials and to offer impact testimony in sentencing hearings.
Victim-impact testimony, in which the victim's family members testify on the grief and hardship of their loss, serves only to emphasize the aggravating nature of a defendant's crime, and is thus not permitted.
"Who knows what impact my testimony had," he added.
But Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat, has been so badly wounded by association with the case that he may not be able to recover, whatever the verdict for Mr. Rezko, according to interviews with academic experts and political commentators who are weighing the impact of testimony.
And she would much rather do it without the emotional impact of victim testimony and advocacy.
Footage of Gary Ackerman, a New York congressman, verbally mauling Linda Thomsen, a former SEC enforcement director, is repeated ad nauseum, but the impact of her testimony is never clear.
From young couples jazzily crossing the dancefloor to the sucker punch of war's reality, the tonal shifts prove tricky – or rather, it's difficult for the dance to land the same impact as the testimony on screen.
While the women's interviews with committee staff were entered into the record, that did not have the same impact as public testimony.
