Gordon worried on safety of witnesses.
Sen. Richard J. Gordon, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, said yesterday that he is trying to contact other possible witnesses in the P728-million fertilizer fund issue as he expressed fears on the safety of witnesses who have knowledge of the controversy. Gordon said he particularly...

Man pinned in car for 45 minutes; Witnesses say driver was speeding.
Byline: Linda Bock WORCESTER - A city man was pinned inside his car for more than 45 minutes yesterday after his car slammed into a building on Pleasant Street. Witnesses said the white Ford Taurus SHO appeared to be speeding when it was heading downtown...

Court asked to save dog from death sentence; `Sunny' involved in 3 bite incidents; witnesses say malamute is friendly.
Byline: Paula J. Owen LEOMINSTER - Leo J. Montagna, owner of 1-year-old Alaskan malamute Sunny, will know in two weeks if his efforts to save his companion's life were successful. Sunny was ordered killed in Princeton, where Mr. Montagna resides, by selectmen in December after...

Report says assault caught on tape; No witnesses saw man lure girl, 5.
Byline: Danielle M. Williamson; George Barnes WINCHENDON - After the ice storm last month, a 5-year-old girl went with her family to Murdock Middle/High School, along with hundreds of other residents who sought safety from the bitter cold that had seeped into their powerless homes. ...

Trey Cox, of Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox, LLP to speak at University of Houston Law School.
DALLAS, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- As a thought leader in the field of trial advocacy, Trey Cox, a Dallas litigator with Lynn Tillotson Pinker & Cox, LLP will share his thoughts on how to use persuasion, personal credibility and logic to protect and defeat the trustworthiness of witnesses at...

Cops arrest suspect in 'text mate killing'.
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu -- After four days of gathering evidence and interviewing witnesses, the policemen here finally collared the suspect in the rape-slaying of a 24-year-old factory worker who was found dead at a grassy portion at the North Reclamation Area. The Mandaue City Police Office's homicide...

Prisoner's letters are focus of pretrial issue; Evidence in '07 shooting or suspect's privacy?
Byline: Gary V. Murray WORCESTER - A prison inmate accused of waging a letter-writing campaign in an effort to intimidate witnesses in a pending shooting case is asking a judge to bar prosecutors from using the letters in question as evidence against him. Nakia D....

A 59-0 vote says a lot.
Byline: The Register-Guard Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich - make that former Illinois governor - argued strenuously that he couldn't get a fair trial in impeachment proceedings being held by his state Senate. And it's true that the senators did not hear from witnesses whose testimony might have...

Cross-examination of experts: saving the best for trial; a veteran litigator advises trial lawyers not to reveal so much during discovery that they limit their ability to effectively cross-examine experts at trial.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cross-examination once was considered an art. (1) Discovery was limited. Witnesses did not always need to be disclosed. (2) And trial lawyers had to think on their feet. In some jurisdictions, traces of this paradigm survive; in criminal cases it remains largely intact virtually everywhere....

FG should talk - Palace spokeswoman.
Deputy Presidential Spokeswoman Lorelei Fajardo said yesterday First Gentleman Atty. Jose Miguel Arroyo "should talk" and defend himself from allegations that he was involved in the cartel practices discovered by the World Bank in the bidding for WB-funded road projects in the Philippines. Fajardo denied speculations that...