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Typically, the material may consist of police notes, memoranda, reports, summaries, letters, related to an indictment or verbatim transcripts used by government agents or employees to testify at trial. [1] This also includes a witness's grand jury testimony, if the witness testified at trial. [2]
In the majority of U.S. jurisdictions, character evidence is inadmissible in civil suits when being used as circumstantial evidence to prove that a person acted in conformity with their character; it is considered to be an unfair basis from which to attempt to prove that an individual behaved in a particular way on a particular occasion. [2]
Alger Hiss (November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
The president's power to issue a pardon or commute a sentence applies only to federal offenses. ... Sentenced in 2019 for killing two bank employees during the ... the killing of a witness for an ...
The exception to this rule occurs when the court determines that such use would violate the ex post facto clause of the Constitution – in other words, if the sentencing guidelines have changed so as to increase the penalty "after the fact", so that the sentence is more severe on the sentencing date than was established on the date that the ...
Andrew Dodson was sentenced to 55 months in federal prison for threatening a witness. He was convicted of obstructing justice. Mogadore man sentenced to federal prison for threatening a witness
Following Brady, the prosecutor must disclose evidence or information that would prove the innocence of the defendant or would enable the defense to more effectively impeach the credibility of government witnesses. Evidence that would serve to reduce the defendant's sentence must also be disclosed by the prosecution.
Lawyer Mark Geragos, representing the Menendez brothers, is set to call six key witnesses to the stand at their re-sentencing hearing, set to take place Dec. 11.