She said that because "we don't have the testimony of this specific female officer, we cannot prove the charges against this defendant beyond a reasonable doubt".
HERR PELCKMANN: The testimony of this witness on these events is supported by the affidavits SS-65, 64, 66, 67, 68, and 69.
The drop in milk consumption offers striking testimony of this: in 1970, per capita milk consumption was 31 gallons a year; in 1998, it is 4 gallons.
"We can no longer support the conviction that rests wholly on the identification testimony of this witness," an assistant district attorney, Peter A. Weinstein, said.
Mailer said earnestly that he had no such intention, adding, "Your Honor, I think it is clear that the testimony of this witness has not been rehearsed".
As a soldier and captive in the wars between the Habsburg and Ottoman empires, Cervantes left us a vital testimony of this tumultuous period, including his relations with Muslims and "renegades" - Christian converts to Islam.
On the uncorroborated, unsubstantiated testimony of this officer, defendants arrested in Tulia on that shameful summer day were convicted and given prison sentences of 20 years, 60 years, 90 years and more.
In fairness to Olson's family, conclusions on what happened should acknowledge the testimony of this witness and some others to Olson's death that no warning was given to the group.
As Ricci put it in an e-mail, "We are now being 'forced' to associate the land walls of Istanbul with conquests, wars, assaults, triumphs — e.g., the 1453 Panorama Museum — but in reality most of the life of the walls was about something else, and the bostan is a testimony of this".
According to the authors, "the Romany language is the only 'book' that the Gypsies took with them from India; it represents their collective memory and is a testimony of this people's view of the world". Gypsies also speak Hindi, the gypsy tribal languages of Sinti and Kalo, and the languages of the countries in which they live.
