Giving evidence

Usage examples of testifying.

Since Misskelley had retracted his confession and, presumably, would not be testifying against his codefendants, his trial had to be severed from theirs.

In 1995, Banks testified at an appeal hearing that Freeh had threatened and coerced him into testifying against the defendant.

After threats and promises from police, she changed her story, testifying to the government's version of events.

Freeh's chief witness, Ted Banks, later told an appeals court that Freeh threatened him into testifying against Moody.

One Phoenix operative, testifying before Congress, stated that Phoenix was "a sterile, depersonalized murder program… it was completely indiscriminate.

He seemed suddenly aware of the fact that he'd been testifying since morning, and he slumped a little in his chair.

And you can live quite well with Kelly testifying that he saw Brandt raping a young girl.

Again and again he refrained from testifying to the Senate that our explorations in space were vindicated by things like telecommunication satellites or the [783] miniaturization of medical devices.

Part of his job was testifying in criminal cases, but it was doubtful he'd ever dreamed of doing so against a Padgitt.

I can see him having value testifying that these are common techniques employed by the police to override one’s free will, and that I found such-and-such conditions prevailing here, and things of that nature—or maybe group dynamics of a cult.

But here—since Jessie would not be testifying, and all the evidence was circumstantial, and there was no apparent motive or eyewitness to the crime—the prosecutors seemed to be altering their version of what had happened.

He considered himself an expert in this field, though he was not testifying as an expert and would not offer opinions.

The witness was obviously comfortable in testifying and had a folksy air about him as he discussed his findings in layman’s terms.