All 50 Uses of
testimony
in
Just Mercy
- He'd been promised that he wouldn't get the death penalty and would get favorable treatment in exchange for his testimony, but it was starting to dawn on him that admitting to involvement in a high-profile murder that he actually had nothing to do with was probably not smart.†
p. 52.4testimony = something that serves as evidence -- especially a statement at a trial or hearing
- But Pearson was confident he could win a guilty verdict despite the suspect testimony of Ralph Myers and Bill Hooks and the strong doubts in the black community His one lingering concern may have been a recent United States Supreme Court case that threatened a longstanding feature of high-profile criminal trials in the South: the all-white jury.†
p. 59.1
- Walter thought the testimony was so nonsensical he couldn't believe that people were taking it seriously.†
p. 65.9 *
- the prosecutor brought Myers back up to repeat his accusations as if the logic and contradictions in the testimony were completely irrelevant, as if repeating his lies enough times in this quiet room would make them true.†
p. 66.2
- It was the kind of wordless testimony of struggle and anguish I heard all the time growing up in a small rural black church.†
p. 92.7
- Their testimony was laughably inconsistent and completely lacking in credibility.†
p. 106.3
- But the state needed Hooks's testimony.†
p. 106.7
- I immediately got an affidavit from Darnell stating that Hooks's testimony was a lie.†
p. 107.3
- If the trial is unfair, or if witnesses have given false testimony, then we can't really know whether he's guilty or not.†
p. 110.3
- "Without Hooks's testimony, the conviction wouldn't be valid," I said, leveling my voice.†
p. 112.1
- Under the State's theory, Myers is an accomplice, and state law requires confirmation of accomplice testimony, which can only come from Hooks.†
p. 112.1
- Mr. Houston says that Hooks is lying, which makes his testimony a critical issue that should be heard in court.†
p. 112.2
- I argued that there was no credible corroboration of Myers's testimony and that under Alabama law the State couldn't rely exclusively on the testimony of an accomplice.†
p. 127.3
- I argued that there was no credible corroboration of Myers's testimony and that under Alabama law the State couldn't rely exclusively on the testimony of an accomplice.†
p. 127.4
- State law required credible corroboration of accomplice testimony in a murder case, and there simply wasn't any in Walter's case.†
p. 129.5
- We discovered that Bill Hooks had been paid by Sheriff Tate for his testimony against Walter—we found checks in the county's financial records showing close to $5,000 in payments to Hooks in reward money and "expenses."†
p. 131.2
- This information should have been disclosed to Walter's counsel prior to trial so that they could have used it to cast doubt on the credibility of Hooks's testimony.†
p. 131.4
- Well, you may be right, but he had a lot of help in putting together that testimony.†
p. 133.1
- But we have to talk to him because if he recants his trial testimony, the State has nothing on Walter.†
p. 133.3
- We had made a lot of progress in disproving the testimony of Bill Hooks; with the appearance of Darnell Houston, the new evidence about the condition of Walter's truck, and the discovery of the assistance given Hooks by law enforcement, his testimony was now riddled with credibility issues.†
p. 133.4
- We had made a lot of progress in disproving the testimony of Bill Hooks; with the appearance of Darnell Houston, the new evidence about the condition of Walter's truck, and the discovery of the assistance given Hooks by law enforcement, his testimony was now riddled with credibility issues.†
p. 133.5
- Myers's bizarre accusations and testimony were the basis of the State's entire case.†
p. 133.6
- Having read Myers's testimony and reviewed the records that were available about him, I knew that he had a tragic background and a complex personality.†
p. 133.6
- His testimony had caused so much anguish for Walter and his family that I had created a larger-than-life image of him.†
p. 134.6
- But before I could say anything, Myers blurted out a full recantation of his trial testimony.†
p. 135.1
- The testimony you gave at trial against Walter McMillian was a lie?†
p. 135.2
- Monroe County officials had reduced Myers's and Kelly's sentences in exchange for Myers's testimony against Walter.†
p. 139.1
- The prosecution's only evidence was the sheriff's testimony regarding George's alleged confession.†
p. 158.5
- We would now have an opportunity to present Ralph Myers's new testimony and all the exculpatory evidence we'd discovered in police records that had never been disclosed.†
p. 163.1
- We were consoled by the fact that so much of our evidence was documentary and could be admitted without the complications and unpredictability that Myers's testimony might introduce.†
p. 163.6
- In criminal cases, witnesses who will be testifying are required to sit outside the courtroom so they can't alter their testimony based on what other witnesses say.†
p. 167.5
- Your Honor, the State's case against Walter McMillian turned entirely on the testimony of Ralph Myers, who had several prior felony convictions and another capital murder case pending against him in Escambia County at the time of Mr. McMillian's trial.†
p. 168.1
- There is no question that Walter McMillian was convicted of capital murder based on the testimony of Ralph Myers.†
p. 168.4
- There was no other evidence to establish Mr. McMillian's guilt for capital murder at trial other than Myers's testimony.†
p. 168.5
- The State had no physical evidence linking Mr. McMillian to this crime, the State had no motive, the State had no witnesses to the crime, the State had only the testimony of Ralph Myers.†
p. 168.6
- Based on the testimony of Ralph Myers, Walter McMillian was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.†
p. 169.1
- As you're about to hear, the testimony of Ralph Myers was completely false.†
p. 169.2
- Again, Your Honor, the testimony of Ralph Myers at trial was completely false.†
p. 169.2
- Mr. Myers, was the testimony that you gave at Mr. McMillian's trial true?†
p. 169.7
- Now, at Mr. McMillian's trial, did you give some testimony that there was a white man inside the cleaners when you went inside?†
p. 170.3
- What was that testimony, please?†
p. 170.4
- As I can recall, the testimony was that I had overheard Walter McMillian saying something to this guy, and I had also recalled saying that I had seen the back part of his head, but that's just about all I can recall on that.†
p. 170.4
- Was that testimony true, Mr. Myers?†
p. 170.5
- I had a copy of the trial transcript and took Ralph through every sentence of his testimony against Walter.†
p. 170.9
- Statement by statement he acknowledged that his previous testimony was entirely false.†
p. 170.9
- When I made him repeat the parts of his testimony about being coerced to testify falsely, Ralph remained calm and conveyed absolute sincerity.†
p. 171.1
- After relentless questioning about why he was changing his testimony and Chapman's suggestion that someone was putting him up to this, Ralph became indignant.†
p. 171.2
- On re-direct examination, I asked Ralph to acknowledge once again that his trial testimony was false and that he had knowingly put an innocent man on death row.†
p. 171.5
- The next challenge was to rebut the testimony of Bill Hooks and Joe Hightower, who had claimed to see Walter's modified "low-rider" truck pulling out from the cleaners about the time Ronda Morrison was murdered.†
p. 171.9
- He knew that such testimony would be false and had told the prosecutors that he refused to lie.†
p. 172.6