Sentence examples for testified in the first from inspiring English sources
Take the government's star witness, Hezekiah Brown, who testified in the first trial, in 1973, but had died by the second, in 1998.
None of the three witnesses who testified in the first day of the defense case tried directly to refute the prosecution evidence.
Mr. Beardsley testified in the first trial that Mr. Jenoff had told him he and a roommate acted alone in Mrs. Neulander's murder.
Those witnesses, he said, would include Ms. Soncini, who testified in the first trial about a dream the rabbi told her he had had in which something "tumultuous" would happen in the fall of 1994.
Seven of those eyewitnesses have recanted their testimonies; some of them say they only testified in the first place because of police intimidation and in hopes that they would evade punishment for their own problems with the law.
Mr. Vides Casanova testified in the second week of the trial on the allegation that he and Mr. Garcia knew of abuses by the security forces but did nothing to stop them.
But Mr. Volpe, who is now serving 30 years in prison for the assault, testified in the second trial in plaintive, emotional tones that Mr. Schwarz was never in the bathroom and that he alone tortured Mr. Louima as Officer Wiese stood by but did nothing to stop him.
The officer, Anthony Tortorella, who said the man was not resisting when he was sprayed, testified in the third week of the trial of five members of the Orange Police Department charged with federal civil rights violations in connection with the beating and abuse of Earl Faison, a 27-year-old East Orange man.
Mr. Adly did not testify in the first trial, and it was unclear whether he would in the second.
He did not testify in the first trial, but if he is acquitted, his testimony in the second trial could help the defense.
A key witness who was to testify in the first civilian trial of a former Guantánamo detainee was accused by the judge on Thursday of making false statements about why he decided to cooperate with authorities.
