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Byline: Nick Hurston Where an elderly priest described an ultimately fatal hospital accident to his family, doctor and another priest, their testimony was admissible and corroborated under Va. Code 8.01-397, [...]

Byline: Kris Olson While some would have preferred to see a rule making either in-person or remote depositions the default, many attorneys at least on the plaintiffs' side approve of [...]

New York does not require bystanders to act when someone is in danger, but the killing on the F train has residents debating when they should step in. As Jordan [...]

Byline: Azi Paybarah Democratic lawmakers didn't hold back their anger Thursday at a House hearing about social media and censorship when a pair of Republican witnesses delivered testimony and left [...]

Byline: MARIEKE WALSH; Staff OTTAWA -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his Deputy Premier, Sylvia Jones, won their legal challenge against testifying at the Emergencies Act inquiry and will not [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips If any criminal referrals come out of the Jan. 6 committee's investigation, witness tampering could be a big one. At the end of Tuesday's hearing, the committee [...]

Byline: Nicholas A. Hurston A federal criminal statute that prohibits the unlawful use of identification information may be applied to a defendant accused of tampering with a witness. Judge Norman [...]

Byline: Jason Boleman A witness who was held in contempt after admitting to using marijuana before testifying at a felony assault trial saw her appeal to vacate her conviction denied. [...]

Byline: Matt Zapotosky Justice Department investigators have reached a cooperation agreement with a man whose attorney says he witnessed Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., attend parties involving 'a whole lot' of [...]

The department said it could not corroborate a book's claim that a central witness had recanted her statements about Emmett, a Black teenager killed by two white men in 1955. [...]

Byline: Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY When news first came out that a woman had been raped on a busy train in Philadelphia last week, it drew nationwide attention and outrage [...]

Byline: John Wagner, Amy B Wang and Felicia Sonmez WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Saturday to allow witnesses to be called in Donald Trump's historic impeachment trial, delaying the timetable [...]

Byline: Arelis R. Hernández SAN ANTONIO - An El Paso, Texas, woman who witnessed a mass shooting of Latinos at a Walmart in 2019, and provided critical information to state [...]

Byline: Steve Reilly and Mark Nichols, USA TODAY Revat Vara should not have gone to prison. One night in 2006, Houston police pulled him over for a missing license plate [...]

Byline: Kris Olson A response of 'I don't remember' feigned or otherwise will be less useful to witnesses in light of a recent Supreme Judicial Court decision, attorneys say. In [...]

Byline: Kris Olson Moving forward, a witness in a civil case may be deemed 'unavailable' if he or she testifies credibly to a lack of memory about a subject matter, [...]

Byline: Matt Chaney A woman who was falsely accused of selling stolen scrap metal will be able to pursue a malicious prosecution lawsuit against the victim of the crime, but [...]

Byline: MICHAEL BALSAMO; ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON -- A prominent American-born anchorwoman on Iranian state television who was held in the United States as a material witness was released from jail Wednesday [...]

Byline: Pat Murphy There's no question that Jerome Smith offered to pay a witness to testify for him in his federal suit against the city of Worcester. But did Smith's [...]

Byline: Eric T. Berkman Massachusetts General Hospital could be ordered to designate a witness to provide Rule 30(b)(6) deposition testimony on whether its policies were followed in the labor and [...]

Byline: Tom Egan The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a judge presiding over a criminal trial did not need to individually question every prospective juror about [...]

Byline: Devlin Barrett Immigration agents may arrest crime victims and witnesses at courthouses, a homeland security official said Tuesday, highlighting a growing dispute between the Trump administration and some state [...]

Byline: Agenique Smiley A plaintiff must list, in his or her notice of intent to sue, the names of witnesses who have pertinent information about the accident itself, not those [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins At appellee's trial for civil commitment as a Sexually Violent Predator under Va. Code § 37.2-900, the trial court abused its discretion by excluding testimony of two [...]

Byline: Martin G. Weinberg and Thomas J. Butters As many know, Timothy Flaherty is one of the most skilled and respected state court criminal defense lawyers in Massachusetts. In December [...]

Byline: Edward Wesoloski An unidentified person who assisted plaintiff after he drove his minibike into a pothole is not a 'known witness' who plaintiff should have listed in his presuit [...]

Byline: Peter Vieth A Virginia Beach man says he never got his rightful day in court because the clerk's office re­fused to summon his witnesses. Although he blamed his predic­ament [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where there was evidence that the defendant intimidated the victim with the intention of obstructing a criminal investigation in January 2013, those events were outside the period [...]

Byline: Deborah Elkins In defendant's prosecution for fatally shooting an armed man he discovered in bed with his former girlfriend, the trial court did not violate Brady v. Maryland by [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where the defendant challenges the credibility of two key witnesses, there is no basis for concluding that the trial judge committed clear error or overlooked or misconceived [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where the petitioner claims that (1) the prosecutor misrepresented to the jury that a witness would be prosecuted for murder, thus impermissibly bolstering his credibility, and (2) [...]

Byline: Traci R. Gentilozzi A trial judge who dismissed a premises liability lawsuit without prejudice wrongly sanctioned the plaintiffs by prohibiting them from using their witnesses and exhibits in any [...]

Byline: Teresa Bruno, Opinions Editor State v. Mitchell (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-0340, 19 pp.) (John Tyson, J.) Appealed from New Hanover County Superior Court (Jay Hockenbury, J.) N.C. App. Holding: [...]

Byline: Ed Wesoloski There is sufficient evidence to sustain a former county sheriff's convictions of witness tampering arising from him instructing deputies to prepare false reports of an incident in [...]

Byline: Brandon Gee One was dubbed the 'Cape Verdean Whitey Bulger.' Another was allowed to testify for the government after threatening to kill a state trooper, a prosecutor and a [...]

Byline: Tom Egan Where a police officer was terminated for refusing to testify at a hearing scheduled under G.L.c. 31, §41, the termination must be overturned because it was not [...]

Byline: Ed Wesoloski There was no error in the form of the oath the trial court gave to witnesses at defendant's trial because the form was 'calculated to awaken the [...]

BEIJING -- If the Chinese authorities thought that barring the artist Ai Weiwei from the courtroom where his lawsuit against tax officials is being heard might tamp down public interest [...]

The owners of the Mets want the Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax to testify at their federal trial. The court-appointed trustee suing them says Koufax would be a distraction. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to require courts to examine suggestive eyewitness evidence with extra care unless it was produced by police misconduct. The decision, by an [...]

The Supreme Court's ruling Tuesday on the use of the material witness statute in combating terrorists was a victory for former Attorney General John Ashcroft and those who would shield [...]

Should a former attorney general be held personally liable for brazenly misusing the material witness statute when he was in office to hold an American man in brutal conditions on [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge ruled on Friday that she would allow testimony from athletes linked to the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative steroids case in Barry Bonds's perjury trial, [...]

It can be hard to distinguish between the Bush administration and the Obama administration when it comes to detainee policy. A case the Supreme Court agreed last week to hear, [...]

Courts should do more to gauge the accuracy of witnesses to crimes, and to let juries know how flawed their testimony can be, according to a former appellate judge assigned [...]

Byline: MARK HUME FISHING VANCOUVER -- A federal inquiry into the decline of sockeye salmon in the Fraser River has received more applications for standing from interested parties than did [...]