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is testimonial
noun
A statement, especially one given under oath; testimony
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It is testimonial to the image's power that it even affects people who haven't seen it.
Again, the statute of limitations is no bar to capital crimes for which there is testimonial evidence.
Whether a particular act is testimonial and self-incriminating is largely a factual issue to be decided in each case.
The question in this case, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, No. 07-591, is whether a laboratory report is simply a business record or whether it is "testimonial evidence" to which the clause applies.
9 Because in the latter situation the explanation of materiality is testimonial in nature, and constitutes evidence of the prejudice incurred as a result of the deportation, it should be verified by oath or affirmation of either the defendant or his attorney.
Even assuming that the statutory requirement of the essentially neutral act of disclosing name and address is incriminating in the traditional sense, it would be an extravagant extension of the privilege to hold that it is testimonial in the Fifth Amendment sense.
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Witness poetry was testimonial rather than polemical.
Were testimonial transmission inferential, the deferment to the original speaker is ruled out.
The deciding word was "testimonial," which caused Frankenberg some consternation.
Most advertisements featured acted scenes, and only a small proportion were testimonial advertisements.
In May 2002 he accepted to be testimonial for UNICEF during the FIFA World Cup, joining forces with the Milan football Club's captain, Paolo Maldini.
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