The detective's lawyer, Michael Elbaz, tried to discredit the most important prosecution witnesses, Yvelisse DeLeon and her boyfriend, Juan Figueroa.
"Here is a commentary on the most important prosecution witness in the course of the trial," Metzer argued.
The tale of page 62: One of the most important prosecution documents was a speech General Jodl made in 1943 on the background and progress of the war.
She is one of the most important prosecution witnesses, one difficult for defense lawyers to impeach, and a crucial part of the prosecution's effort to build a case on more than forensic evidence.
Some bittersweet satisfaction came in 2001, when David Greenglass, Ethel Rosenberg's brother and one of the most important prosecution witnesses, confessed in the book "The Brother," by Sam Roberts, a reporter for The New York Times, that he had given false testimony in the 1951 trial.
McQueary could be the most important prosecution witness in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's case against Sandusky: he offers an eyewitness account of a sexual assault, perhaps a rape, and he claims to have told people of the attack in the hours and days after he saw it.
Officer Maloney is perhaps the most important prosecution witness against the three officers on trial, and one by one, he was asked to identify them: Richard Kern, charged with aggravated sexual abuse, and Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales, who are accused of helping cover up Officer Kern's actions.
Most important, criminal prosecution would send a clear message that an environmental disaster of this magnitude cannot be allowed to happen again.
The finding that Mr. Milosevic runs a serious risk of a heart attack is almost certain to change the pace and the shape of his war crimes trial, the most important such prosecution since Nazi and Japanese commanders were tried after World War II.
His trial, the most important war crimes prosecution since Nuremberg, begins next month.
