Sentence examples for missing witnesses from inspiring English sources

About 100 villagers were seriously injured and 100 others were reported missing, witnesses and news reports said.

There's lots of other intrigue worthy of a Grisham novel — missing witnesses, destroyed evidence, insider stock trading.

The local police prosecutor had no case files for at least a third of the prisoners, and he nonchalantly informed the presiding magistrate of missing witnesses.

The first Bush form protested defective ballots just as the Gore form did and listed many of the same potential flaws -- missing witnesses, late postmarks, domestic postmarks.

Paperwork and files are incomplete or missing; witnesses are not warned to attend court; vital evidence mislaid.

He had to contend with dead or missing witnesses and evidence, a sometimes-reluctant boss, and an unenthusiastic public, at least among whites in the state.

A missing witness in a 17-year-old murder case reappeared yesterday, and lawyers hoped he would solve the mystery of who killed a bouncer at the Palladium nightclub in Manhattan.

SÃO PAULO, Brazil — A missing witness to the death of a Roman Catholic bishop during Argentina's military dictatorship was found safe early Thursday after unknown people took him hostage and warned him to back down from testifying in an inquiry into the death, the witness's lawyer said on Thursday.

The most recent hearing was postponed because of a missing witness.

According to Scalia, this "doctrine has roots in the 1666 decision in Lord Morley's case," which set the rule that statements of a missing witness may not be used unless the witness was "kept away" by the "means or procurement" of the defendant.

Iain Pears, the best-selling detective fiction writer who lives in Oxford, said by telephone that he had just missed witnessing the theft.