In 1935, Dr. Hoffmann served as a prosecution witness in the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, charged in the kidnapping and death of the Lindbergh baby.
He said today that the guilty plea would have short-circuited a long jury trial that would have served as a prosecution "showcase" to inflame the jury and the public over the events of Sept. 11.
Killebrew started the 1968 season in a different venue; he served as a prosecution witness in a case where his name was being used to sell stocks in Idaho, unknown to him.
But now, the 19-year-old who served as the prosecution's key witness in the trial for the man who shot and killed her friend, Trayvon Martin, is putting the past behind her and taking an exciting step into her future -- with a new look.
Ethel's brother, who was a machinist at the Manhattan Project, provided the Rosenbergs with the information, but he later cooperated with the government and served as the primary prosecution witness at their espionage trial.
James A. Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Justice Initiative, served as coordinator of prosecutions and senior trial attorney in the office of the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.
He no longer sits in on the trial — at an earlier hearing, he quarrelled with a tombarolo, or grave robber, who was serving as a prosecution witness — but he likes to chat with reporters outside the courtroom.
Kozol, who attended Harvard Law School for two years before switching to medical school, was also a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, the expertise that brought him to San Francisco in 1976 to serve as a prosecution witness in the Hearst case.
Jurors had heard testimony over six days, with Constand serving as the prosecution's star witness.
By turning on his gang and serving as the prosecution's star witness, White has become what criminals detest the most: a snitch.
