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One witness, who named Hobson both by his own name and his nickname of "Muck", [19] claimed to have seen him fighting two separate men. Another witness, who was a police officer at the scene, described Hobson by the clothes he was wearing along with an accurate physical description, kicking Robert Hamill while he was on the ground. [20]
The judge said the fact that the police produced a video footage of the convicts making the confessional statements also helped in countering the claim by the convicts that they made the statements under duress. The court was satisfied that the confessional statements were not given under duress and admitted them in evidence. A confession is ...
A witness at the scene told police he saw Tilley exit the passenger seat of his vehicle in the parking lot and walk away from the vehicle. He stated he heard an unknown man yell something before ...
the witness is subject to cross-examination about the prior statement. [4] There is no requirement that the prior consistent statement have been made under oath at a prior trial or hearing. A form of prior consistent statement excepted from this rule is that of prior identification by the witness of another person in a lineup. [citation needed]
Alec Baldwin's "Rust" manslaughter case is officially over. On Monday, special prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew the State's appeal that was filed on Nov. 21.
Where allowed, such an endorsement gives the document the same weight as an affidavit, per 28 U.S.C. § 1746 [2] The document is called a sworn declaration or sworn statement instead of an affidavit, and the maker is called a "declarant" rather than an "affiant", but other than this difference in terminology, the two are treated identically by ...
Both the first witness, a charter boat captain who gave a sworn statement to prosecutors in June, and the firefighter were put in contact with the State Attorney’s Office by the attorney for the ...
Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), is a landmark United States Supreme Court decision that reformulated the standard for determining when the admission of hearsay statements in criminal cases is permitted under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment.