uncorroborated testimony

"Shouldn't you get something more than the uncorroborated testimony of James Brown?"

Only by applying the amendment, he said, could the state take its case to a jury based solely on the victim's uncorroborated testimony.

But Ms. Jaffa said the uncorroborated testimony had not figured in the city's decision.

Federal court rules, for example, permit a conviction on the uncorroborated testimony of a co-conspirator; state law requires independent confirmation.

Under New York State law, a defendant cannot be convicted on the uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.

Asked yesterday about the uncorroborated testimony, Giamatti said: "Exhibits normally accompany a report, as background data.

Gerard Brand, the jury foreman, said jurors had been reluctant to accept uncorroborated testimony from Beavers.

Also unlike state courts, Federal courts permit wide use of uncorroborated testimony from accomplices, which is often essential in proving a criminal conspiracy.

But Mr. Ebbers took the gamble because so much of the prosecution case rests largely on the uncorroborated testimony of Mr. Sullivan.

His report is riddled with slanted statements, conjecture advanced as fact or probable fact, uncorroborated testimony of unnamed witnesses, selection of evidence and downright falsity."

Corroboration Charge Required Moreover, British judges are still required to warn jurors to think carefully before convicting an accused rapist on the uncorroborated testimony of a complainant.

The report accepted fully Colonel North's uncorroborated testimony that Mr. Casey, the former Director of Central Intelligence, had been a mastermind of the "extra legal covert organization."

Federal law often permits more severe punishment, a wider scope of prosecution reach and the introduction of evidence not permitted under New York State law, like the uncorroborated testimony of accomplices.

Prosecutors conceded that they had made an awful mistake in relying on Mr. Coleman's uncorroborated testimony and moved in court to overturn every conviction, including those in which defendants pleaded guilty.

They said they had made a terrible mistake in relying on Mr. Coleman's uncorroborated testimony, and they agreed that all convictions, including those of individuals who had pleaded guilty, should be overturned.

The court said Thursday that two marines serving on the jury in the court-martial of the former corporal, Barbara J. Baum, were biased and that the military judge had allowed uncorroborated testimony.

The defence said that the central drug and murder charges in the case were based on the uncorroborated testimony of Marino Mannoia and Gravano, depicted by the defense as killers and liars.

Yet the grand jury concluded earlier this year that the three officers had stolen the money but that Detective Arroyo and Sergeant Rodriguez could not be charged on Mr. Young's uncorroborated testimony.

This becomes most obvious when we see a witness dismissed as being not credible for one set of events, and then see the same witnesses' uncorroborated testimony become the basis for a major set of assertions about other events.

But a defense lawyer contended that the prosecution had raised the inflammatory "specter of organized crime" and offered the "uncorroborated testimony of murderous psychopaths," but had failed to provide "reliable, sufficient, verifiable" evidence of guilt.

It has been some time since people here have had a good look at Thomas Coleman, the former undercover police officer whose uncorroborated testimony was all that supported a drug sweep in which more than a tenth of this small town's black population was arrested.

"Corroboration becomes extremely important here because juries are unlikely to convict based on a cooperating witness's uncorroborated testimony," said Jason Brown, a former federal prosecutor and now a securities litigator at Holland & Knight in New York.

But Mr. Dyson said that Mr. Will should have been accompanied by a graduate student and that Mr. Will's uncorroborated testimony was not sufficient to prove that the fraternity did not properly monitor alcohol consumption.

And, he found, children were often being judged guilty of delinquent acts on the basis of the uncorroborated testimony of other children or of one parent's assertions or the unchallenged testimony of a police officer or parole officer.

The second has been tested this week, as witness after witness has testified to shortcomings in the character and methods of Thomas Coleman, a white former undercover police officer here whose uncorroborated testimony supported drug charges against 46 people, almost all of them black.