The father of a man who plotted in 2009 to set off homemade bombs in Manhattan subway cars tried to thwart investigators by destroying evidence and misleading a grand jury, a relative testified on Tuesday.
A relative testified that he "had a peculiar temper owing to some strange notions he had formed in his head"; yet in a letter to his brother written from prison, MacLeod was capable of writing this: "What can I say to you but I have a low eye and a trembling heart and a low hope that the Lord have mercy on me, a poor cursed man".
Some of Mr. Davis's relatives testified that as they began arguing with Mr. Sottile over the passes, Mr. Davis's daughter Kayla, then 23 months old, ran into the jetway.
The ruling came after a hearing in which Mr. Garner acknowledged that he was a liar, and his own relatives testified, in effect, that he wouldn't recognize the truth if he were drowning in it.
Mrs. Schiavo, 39, did not have a living will when her heart briefly stopped beating one night thirteen years ago, causing extensive brain damage, but her husband and several of his relatives testified that she had told them she would never want to be kept alive artificially.
However, witnesses and relatives testified that Korkoneas had deliberately taken aim and fired.
During his trial, two of Cottrell's relatives testified that he lured Phillips to his death, and killed him because he was gay.[131] Cottrell was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison.[132].
Earlier this year, parliament passed a law that gagged victims of domestic violence by preventing relatives testifying against each other, although it was later modified on Karzai's orders.
The other relative who testified against Mohammed Wali Zazi was his brother-in-law, Mr. Jaji, who said that the defendant had conspired to destroy the bomb-making material and had instructed him to falsely tell a grand jury that Amanullah Zazi was his adopted son.
I recognized a tone I had heard in the voices of the therapists, police officers, social workers, lawyers, and relatives who testified against Borukhova.
During the trial, a number of American and African victims and relatives members testified about the devastating impact, including financial, of the attack.
