The checks are supposed to be documented in a signed, sworn log.
In 1970, Britain's Scotland Yard opened another inquiry, after several of the soldiers who had been there that day — all members of the elite Scots Guards regiment — signed sworn testimonies that they had indeed killed unarmed villagers.
After Mr. Bermudez's conviction, five witnesses who had testified at the trial signed sworn affidavits recanting their testimony and saying they were coerced or manipulated by the police, in a year with an extraordinary number of murders, to identify Mr. Bermudez as the killer.
The witnesses in recent days have signed sworn affidavits, which Phipps' lawyer plans to use to ask for a new trial.
But in 2005, Lipsey and Ray each signed sworn affidavits saying they had been pressured into making their original statements, which were inaccurate.
The same form contains a line for the employer to sign, swearing that she has checked out the employee's documents and believes everything is on the up and up.
The lawsuit comes as top prosecutors nationwide are investigating whether the paperwork that banks used to support foreclosure cases often was egregiously sloppy, sometimes relying on robo-signers — employees who signed hundreds of documents a day — to sign sworn court documents.
He said the four complainants had been asked to sign sworn statements to Archbishop Mennini.
"We do have a supermajority now of Republicans in the House, and that allowed us to be able to get the two-thirds margin that we needed," Lowery said, adding that he feels the new version of the law doesn't disenfranchise voters thanks to changes like a provision that allows people with photo IDs to cast provisional ballots after signing sworn statements confirming their identities.
After three attempts to brush him off, she said, she forced her brother to sign a contract swearing that he would never reveal what she was about to say.
