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An incognito witness (świadek incognito), also an anonymous witness (świadek anonimowy), is a witness who has been questioned in the course of criminal proceedings and whose circumstances allowing disclosure of his or her identity are not known to other participants in the proceedings, other than the prosecutor and the court, due to a well-founded fear of danger to the life, health, freedom ...
The silent witness rule is the use of "substitutions" when referring to sensitive information in the United States open courtroom jury trial system. An example of a substitution method is the use of code-words on a "key card", to which witnesses and the jury would refer during the trial, but which the public would not have access to.
The judge in the Jay-Z case, which also names Combs, ruled on Dec. 26 that the accuser — who alleges she was assaulted by both rappers in 2000 — can remain anonymous for now.. Her ruling ...
The suspicious witness also must be cautioned about the right to remain silent. Suspicious witnesses cannot be heard under oath. However, the German constitutional court has decided that the much more strict UK laws, in which complete silence of the accused can be used against him depending on additional evidence, are compatible with the German ...
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 ...
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 ...
Berghuis v. Thompkins, 560 U.S. 370 (2010), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that, unless and until a criminal suspect explicitly states that they are relying on their right to remain silent, their voluntary statements may be used in court and police may continue to question them.
The police can falsify the results of a lineup by giving hints to the witness. For example, they may let the witness "accidentally" see their preferred suspect in circumstances indicating criminality (e.g., in handcuffs) before the lineup. [22] This is sometimes called an "Oklahoma showup" and was claimed to have been used in the Caryl Chessman ...