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.
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.
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. Golovkin said he was unsure whether Ms. Bakhmina would be called to testify in the second trial against Mr. Khodorkovsky.
Testifying in the second murder trial of the rabbi, Fred J. Neulander, the witness, Leonard Jenoff, paused, put his hand over his mouth and seemed to struggle with his emotions as he described how he hit Mr. Neulander's wife, Carol, once on the back of the head with a lead pipe as she led him into the sun parlor at her home in Cherry Hill eight years ago today.
Maloney ultimately returned to the proceedings, Politico reports, and two women were scheduled to testify in the second panel, Dr. Allison Dabs Garrett, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Oklahoma Christian University, and Laura Champion, M.D., Medical Director at Calvin College Health Services.
