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testify
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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- And if you are called to testify, that's what you're going to say?†
p. 205.3testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- They enticed him into a parking garage and beat and kicked him so brutally that an expert in trauma injury testified that when the victim arrived at the hospital he was "probably the most mutilated person I have ever seen still alive."†
p. 207.5testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Witnesses were not allowed to watch the proceedings until after they had testified.†
p. 213.2
- Detective Joseph Jordan testified that he had taken great care to preserve whatever residue had been on Hansford's hands.†
p. 217.8
- Randall Riddell, the technician who performed the gunshot-residue tests at the state crime lab, testified he had found no gunshot residue at all on Danny's hands.†
p. 217.9
- By the time Dr. Burton was finished testifying, the defense had responded to most of the prosecution's arguments.†
p. 220.1testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- In addition, over Lawton's objections, the defense had called several witnesses who testified that Danny Hansford was an extremely violent young man.†
p. 220.2testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- You've testified at considerable length concerning your relationship with Danny Hansford.†
p. 223.9
- I think you testified that he was employed by you in two other capacities, one as a part-time worker in your shop and the other to look after you because of your health condition.†
p. 224.6
- But Lawton argued that George Hill's testimony would introduce a motive for the killing, and Judge Oliver ruled that he could testify.†
p. 226.8testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Could Jim Williams have known that about now he would be testifying in court that he had been forced to kill Danny Hansford in self-defense?†
p. 232.4testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Corporal Michael Anderson, the police officer who had come to the house that night, had testified about that earlier incident.†
p. 232.9testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- It was the hole about which the arresting officer, Corporal Anderson, had testified, "I couldn't determine if that was a fresh bullet hole or an old one."†
p. 238.8
- He was double-crossed when the judge allowed those two punk friends of Hansford's to testify about Jim and Danny having sex.†
p. 268.2testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- So I thought a minute and I said, 'How about if your mother is not in the courtroom when you testify?†
p. 268.5 *
- Lawton introduced about twenty photographs in the first trial, but the police photographer testified she took five rolls.†
p. 270.8testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Williams testifies.†
p. 282.1testifies = provides evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Thomas steps down after testifying.†
p. 284.2testifying = providing evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Back in the courtroom, a psychiatrist testifies that as a child Danny Hansford was a breath holder.†
p. 285.8testifies = provides evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Minerva will not testify after all.†
p. 285.9testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- His comments are supported by Joseph Burton, the medical examiner from Atlanta who testified in the first trial and has returned for this one.†
p. 286.2testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- First, it ruled that Judge Oliver should not have allowed a Savannah police detective to testify as an "expert" for the prosecution on points of evidence that the jurors were competent to evaluate on their own—the smeared blood on Danny Hansford's hand, the chair on his pants cuff, the fragments of paper on top of the gun.†
p. 341.1testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- Seiler's expert witness, Dr. Irving Stone, had testified that the downward angle of the gun, plus the blood from Hansford's hand and the delay of twelve hours before the police swabbed for residue, would have diminished the residue on Hansford's hands by 70 percent, but no more.†
p. 345.5testified = provided evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
- It had been nearly four years since he had last testified, and Seiler worried that he might become confused about minor details and contradict what he had said before.†
p. 345.9
- If you get up there and say you blinked twice before you shot Hansford, he'll say, 'But, Mr. Williams, didn't you testify on an earlier occasion that you blinked three times?'†
p. 348.7testify = provide evidence of something -- especially oral evidence in court
Definitions:
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(1)
(testify) provide evidence of something -- especially to say something under oath in a court of law
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)