This has made the testimony that results seem even more irrefutable.
That is what, on April 14th, made the testimony of Charles S. Riley, a clerk at a Massachusetts plumbing-and-steam-fitting company, so explosive.
The four men face the death penalty if convicted, and they are fighting for their lives in a large, half-empty courtroom where the rattle of a generator and the clatter of the court reporter's typewriter make the testimony almost inaudible.
Earlier this year the last people who were on the list died, making the testimonies invaluable.
This time, the found material and loaded objects – from an operating chair to a tangled heap of coathangers – make the testimonies all the more stark.
The defense lawyers made the officers' testimony the centerpiece of their defense, asserting that the shooting was justified because they had believed Mr. Diallo was grabbing a gun.
It argues, among other things, that the court should free Mr. Polanski by imposing a sentence for time served, or at least make the sealed testimony alleging wrongdoing available to Swiss authorities.
Though Zach Wahls, 19, made the moving testimony in front of the Iowa House of Representatives back in February, the video has re-surfaced in the blogosphere now after being posted on MoveOn.org's website yesterday.
Her discursive, breathless, self-contradicting, breaking-off-and-circling-back technique makes the book feel like the testimony of a traumatized witness.
At the very beginning of Kirk's testimony, he makes the claim, which he has since confessed is false: "I've been in office just one year.
