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Additional purposes of cross-examination include the use of the testimony of the witness to discredit others of the opponent's witnesses and to uncover any favorable evidence for one's case.
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TO DISCREDIT, practice, evidence. To deprive one of credit or confidence. 2. In general, a party may discredit a witness called by the opposite party, who testifies against him, by proving that his character is such as not to entitle him to credit or confidence, or any other fact which shows he is not, entitled to belief.
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In a pointed intervention at the hearings on Monday, the former Supreme Court Justice said that there seems to be an "effort by the government to discredit James Bartleman." ... India: Keeping a flower beautiful for years - Indian researchers tell how...
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After that admission, Kuney asked how Elzinga came to determine that the states' remedies were influenced by Microsoft's rivals. ... requested be added to the provision so that its product would be covered in the remedy. The witness said Novell uses "network operating system" to describe its product, while most companies...
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"I believe in the case." But she stressed she was only a "fact witness" and had no bias in her testimony. Glotzer admitted to Morvillo that she failed to provide Stewart a form the SEC routinely hands out to people it questions. ... How to Book...
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THE HAGUE (AFP) — Lawyers for Charles Taylor sought Thursday to discredit a witness who told the court of the Liberian president's ties with RUF rebels in Sierra Leone, ... Sherif, a Liberian in charge of Taylor's motorcade security, told the court how RUF leaders often came to Monrovia and received instructions,
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Lawyers for Steven Truscott worked Friday to discredit a key Crown witness who they say lied on the stand during his 1959 trial and whose testimony helped convict the then-14-year-old boy in the rape and murder of 12-year-old Lynne Harper.
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It is part of the obligation of a trial judge to protect witnesses against evidence tending to discredit the witness unless such evidence is reasonably called for by exigencies of the case. A witness is not on trial and has no means of protecting himself. ... Rex v. Watson, 32 How. St. Tr. 284. Nor is it material,
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Television is a wonderful medium for showing how cross-examination is used to discredit, ... Cross-examination may elicit extra, and to the defense, useful facts, and it may discredit the evidence previously given in examination in chief." In a nutshell, it is in cross-examination that lawyers get a chance to discredit a witness.
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