untrustworthy witness

Benito was an unlikely angel... and Geryon an untrustworthy witness, I reminded myself.

The result is that in some major trials, despite clear medical evidence of sexual abuse, children have been made to seem totally untrustworthy witnesses to their own victimization.

The case iterated the Vetrovec Warning which gives judges the discretion to warn the jury of the risks of accepting the testimony of untrustworthy witnesses.

It was the Democrats from Mr. Chung's party who turned on Mr. Chung, bitterly denouncing him as an untrustworthy witness.

Likewise, federal prosecutors are unlikely to enter a new charge against Officer Wiese because they consider Mr. Volpe an untrustworthy witness who has previously lied under oath.

"An informer is an inherently untrustworthy witness, but unfortunately we are at a point in our history where the Government can give a walk to any scoundrel it wants in order to achieve its goals."

Augustus Howell, a Confederate agent, testified that Mrs. Surratt's eyesight was poor, and that Louis Weichmann was an untrustworthy witness as he had sought to become a Confederate spy himself.

His lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, countered that the prosecution case was built on fabricated evidence and untrustworthy witnesses who had pleaded guilty to drug-conspiracy charges and agreed to testify against Mr. Gatien in exchange for leniency.

The attorneys hold that Mr. Griffith's death was an accident for which the youths were not responsible, and that the charges against their clients are based on the accounts of perjurers and other untrustworthy witnesses, including Mr. Sandiford.

Defense attorneys at the Federal trial of Angelo Ruggiero, a reputed Mafia "capo," and nine other defendants attacked the Government's case yesterday, asserting it was based on speculation, misleading fragments of recorded conversations and the testimony of untrustworthy witnesses.

The lawyers told the jury that the prosecution case was built on the accounts of perjurers and other untrustworthy witnesses and on a false view of the black men, whom the defense lawyers painted as aggressors rather than, as the authorities have charged, victims of a racial attack.

"You cannot convict Mr. Gatien of anything on the evidence that has been presented," the lawyer argued, insisting that the entire prosecution case, "if you take out all the nonsense, are the conversations" that three untrustworthy witnesses claim to have had "one on one with Peter Gatien five years ago."

The only facts I was not able to verify are the details of Charles Foster Marquand's life which I obtained from Captain Shelley, the late chief of police at Maynard, and although he was a biased and untrustworthy witness I feel that in this single case he was almost certainly accurate.