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n. a government program that provides new identities and protection for witnesses who come forward and testify against dangerous targets
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Witness protection is protection of a threatened witness or any person involved in the justice system, including defendants and other clients, before, during, and after a trial, usually by police. While a witness may only require protection until the conclusion of a trial, some witnesses are provided with a new identity and may live out the rest of their lives under government protection.
Witness protection is usually required in trials against organized crime, where law enforcement sees a risk for witnesses to be intimidated by colleagues of defendants. It is also used at war crime trials.
Witness Protection is a 1999 American television movie directed by Richard Pearce. The teleplay by Daniel Therriault is based on a New York Times Magazine article entitled The Invisible Family by Robert Sabbag. It was broadcast by HBO on December 11, 1999 and released on videotape in Portugal (Protecção de Uma Testemunha), Argentina (Protejan al testigo), and Iceland the following year.
Witness Protection is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Dave Hollister, released on August 5, 2008.
Usage examples of "witness protection".
I've assigned Detective Baxter and Officer Trueheart to witness protection, off the log.
All I want is the name the Bureau gave Trini Rodriguez in the Witness Protection Program.
You must not be alarmed to discover that two entire floors of your hotel have been rented out to the federal Witness Protection Program.
Should we go up and grab his mother and put her in witness protection?
He's the one at the Bureau who said I was too valuable in the field, who wouldn't let me enter Witness Protection until my wife was dead.
Apparently, the Church has some kind of equivalent of the Witness Protection Program, for getting people out of the reach of supernatural baddies.
Think of it as a witness protection program for scientists, and like I said, we're well funded.
The DEA had taken his club, liquidated the rest of his shit, moved them to safekeeping under the Witness Protection Program.
Marshals and have them taken to a witness protection facility upstate.