Therefore, should another trial on the same charges, with the same defendants, be ordered, that trial would start from the beginning, with the previous testimony or other findings not necessarily relevant in the new court proceedings.
That latter statement contradicts e-mail evidence the committee made public this week, as well as the previous testimony of other parties.
Internal emails show Tony Abbott's office was made aware on Monday 1 June that the AGD had failed to send the letter to the joint federal and New South Wales government review into the siege – but parliament was not told about the error in the department's previous testimony to a Senate inquiry until Thursday 4 June.
Less than five minutes into the cross-examination, Mr. Flemmi got tangled up in whether he had told the truth in previous testimony about his relationship with Deborah Hussey, the daughter of his longtime girlfriend, Marion Hussey.
Over Oprison's objection, the judge ruled that the prosecution could submit as evidence verbatim transcripts of the squad members' previous testimony.
The judge also ruled that the jury cannot see previous testimony from Joshua Claus, identified only as "Interrogator One" in the military commissions, who told Khadr a fictitious story about a young Afghan sent to an American prison, where he was gang-raped and possibly killed by "a bunch of big black guys and big Nazis," because he didn't cooperate with interrogators.
Ms. Kaye's investigators never interviewed the governor; they relied instead on his previous testimony to the ethics commission.
Most of the evidence stems from previous testimony by a provincial governor, Luis Singson, who said he delivered millions of dollars in money from illegal gambling to the president.
In a carefully worded letter, the director said he wanted to "supplement my previous testimony" about the original Clinton email investigation, which he told Congress had closed this summer, and said: "The FBI cannot yet assess whether or not this material may be significant".
The House Ethics Committee was about to rule against Farenthold in its investigation into whether he sexually harassed members of his staff, used official money for campaign purposes and lied in previous testimony to the committee, according to the office of Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif).
Adelson kept up the verbal battles with Jacobs' lawyer, James Pisanelli, that marked his previous testimony and led the billionaire to argue with the judge last week.
