Also, a prosecutor who led the investigation said some witnesses had recanted their statements.
But at the hearing called to establish the truth of the matter — Daniel Malakov denied the allegations — both witnesses recanted their statements.
Seven of the nine eyewitnesses recanted their statements, in a case that was solely built on the statements of eyewitnesses, but our country's most just of the most just, at the crucial moment, had no doubt.
However, HudBay says several witnesses recanted their statements to the prosecutor, saying they were intimidated into lying.
Prior to Davis's execution, seven of nine trial witnesses recanted their statements that they saw Davis kill MacPhail, claiming that police coerced their testimony.
In September, Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis was put to death after he garnered international attention when most of the witnesses who testified against him in a trial recanted their statements.
Both the Louisville Times and the Louisville Courier-Journal recanted their statements in 1950 that Cooper should seek election to the Senate in 1954; they now feared that the election of a Republican would allow that party to organize the Senate, giving key committee chairmanships to isolationists opposed to continued U.S. involvement in the Korean War.
In the years since the trial, seven out of nine witnesses have recanted their statements and many assert that they were pressured into fingering Davis as the killer by overly-eager police trying to solve a case involving one of their own.
The case against Kenyatta appears to be collapsing as witnesses refuse to testify or recant their statements.
Mr. Mason maintains that in their effort to stop his book, representatives for the Versaces got in contact with people whom he had interviewed and tried to convince them to recant their statements, in some cases, he said, offering legal documents for them to sign.
Cohn kept the government busy with procedural protests, and obtained affidavits from some witnesses — including the Queens superintendent — recanting their statements and claiming that they had been threatened.
