NOUN
- a witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter
How To Use material witness In A Sentence
- A material witness statute was enacted in 1984 in a bipartisanship effort to codify common law in this area.
- As the last person to see her alive, he was a material witness in the case.
- a material witness
- One reason to hold material witnesses is that they are considered likely to flee the country.
- His new wife is being held as a material witness to first-degree murder.
- The prosecution's case collapsed when a material witness failed to appear in court.
- As the last person to see her alive, he was a material witness in the case.
- As the last person to see her alive, he was a material witness in the case.
- He was held as a material witness with supposed knowledge of a plot to plant a dirty bomb in the United States.
- A material witness and designated unfriendly -- a convicted felon. STONE CITY
