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The WITSEC program was formally established under Title V of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, which states that the United States Attorney General may provide for the relocation and protection of a witness or potential witness of the federal government or a state government in an official proceeding concerning organized crime or other serious offenses.
The federal witness protection program was developed because of the difficulty of prosecuting cases where witnesses would disappear shortly before trial. [8] [9] [not specific enough to verify] These programs frequently require the witness to leave his residence or even family so that he can be protected before the trial occurs.
Swiss law provides for a witness protection program coordinated by the witness protection unit of the Federal Office of Police. [15] There is no agency provided, but there are certain circumstances where the police will step up. This is part of their witness protect regime in 2013.
Prior to the enactment of DOMA, the GAO identified 1,049 federal statutory provisions [2] in which benefits, rights, and privileges are contingent on marital status or in which marital status is a factor. An update was published in 2004 by the GAO covering the period between September 21, 1996 (when DOMA was signed into law), and December 31, 2003.
A federal judge decided Tuesday that the names of potential witnesses in the classified documents case against Donald Trump will remain secret – resolving one of the issues that has created a ...
A potential government witness in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against fDonald Trump has received online threats that are under federal investigation, special counsel Jack Smith said ...
In most jurisdictions including in federal courts, both the witness-spouse and the accused-spouse have the spousal communications privilege, so either may invoke it to prevent the witness-spouse from testifying about a confidential communication made during the marriage even if neither spouse is a party in the trial. [4]
Witnesses for now will be referenced in court papers using pseudonyms, the judge said. Trump has repeatedly attacked judges, prosecutors and some known witnesses in the four criminal cases against ...