Jane was called to give testimony in court during the criminal trial and relate to the jury the details of the crime she had witnessed.
testimony
Definition
Oral or written evidence given by a competent witness, under oath, at trial or in an affidavit or deposition.
Definition from Nolo’s Plain-English Law Dictionary
Evidence given under oath by a witness either at trial or in an affidavit or deposition.
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August 19, 2010, 5:25 pm
“We do not venture to resolve these issues ourselves, not only because we are a court of final review, ‘not of first view,’ Cutter v. Wilkinson, 544 U.S. 709, 718, n. 7, 125 S.Ct. 2113, 161 L.Ed.2d 1020 (2005), but also because the relevant facts remain unclear. Montejo and the police gave inconsistent testimony about exactly what took place on the afternoon of September 10, 2002, and the Louisiana Supreme Court did not make an explicit credibility determination. Moreover, Montejo’s testimony came not at the suppression hearing, but rather only at trial, and we are unsure whether under state law that testimony came too late to affect the propriety of the admission of the evidence. These matters are best left for resolution on remand.” J. Scalia, Montejo v. Louisiana, 129 S.Ct. 2079, 2092 (2009).
