How To Use Unsworn In A Sentence

  • In addition, the tribunals are to allow unsworn written and telephone testimony by prosecution witnesses, making a mockery of the principle of facing and cross-examining one's accusers.
  • To illustrate, the rules of evidence were relaxed to include such indirect prosecution evidence as hearsay, diaries, unsworn statements, affidavits that could not be verified unless witnesses took the stand, and so forth.
  • Two unsworn witnesses came forward to incriminate Conley. AS SEEN ON TV: JIM CONLEY
  • In unsworn testimony (which is common for defendants in military commissions and not subject to cross-examination), Khadr apologized to Mrs. Speer and to her family for the pain he had caused. Daphne Eviatar: Judge Hides Evidence of Torture from Gitmo Jury
  • I am bemused that Metro1 treats the police report in a case like this as if it was dispassionate truth rather than the unsworn testimony of an interested party. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gates Charges Dropped:
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  • Evidence acts in Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, the Northwest Territories, and the Yukon Territories continue to require corroborative evidence for unsworn testimony.
  • Comments suggest some states are different, such statements might be unsworn. The Volokh Conspiracy » Originalism and the Sixth Amendment Right “to have the Assistance of Counsel”
  • But it appears, at least, that some of the sworn (and unsworn, in the case of Cheney) statements of the key players doesn't coincide. Marcy Wheeler: Collective Forgetting in the Office of the Vice President
  • An added problem in this case was that she was too old to give unsworn testimony.
  • the witness stands unsworn
  • Whether or not he testified on the issue of guilt or innocence or as to matters in extenuation or mitigation, the accused may make an unsworn statement to the court in mitigation or extenuation of the offenses of which he stands convicted, but the right to make such an unsworn statement does not permit the filing of the affidavit of the accused. EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
  • The appeal, however, was allowed upon another ground which the Court does not need to trouble itself with, that is, that the judge misdirected the jury upon the appellant's unsworn statement.
  • Later, he apologized to her in an unsworn statement, a maneuver that allowed him to address the court without having to face questions from the prosecution yet still make his most extensive public comments since his capture. Omar Khadr Apologizes, Says He's Sorry To War Widow
  • In fact, I used to have a rule of thumb in my head that if the judge mentioned witness box and unsworn statement within a sentence or so, there was an implied comment within the meaning of the authorities.
  • The appeal, however, was allowed upon another ground which the Court does not need to trouble itself with, that is, that the judge misdirected the jury upon the appellant's unsworn statement.
  • The tribunals allow 'witnesses' to give evidence against prisoners in unsworn statements instead of testimony. Times, Sunday Times
  • Notice that they conveniently neglect to mention that Rove's statements were unsworn. Siegelman Prosecutors Lash Out at Whistleblowers
  • At a court hearing on Dec. 15 at Fort Campbell, Ky., Miller submitted an unsworn statement in which he said he fired after Mohammed tried to grab his 9 mm pistol. Md. soldier faces court-martial for death of Afghan civilian
  • Did this accused make an unsworn statement to the jury?
  • unsworn testimony

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