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state's evidence

n.
Testimony by a person involved in a crime who implicates another party in exchange for a lighter sentence or immunity from prosecution.
Idiom:
turn state's evidence
To give such testimony in court.
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state's evidence

(in the US) n
1. (Law) the evidence for the prosecution given on behalf of a state in a criminal prosecution
2. (Law) evidence given for the state by an accomplice against his former associates in crime (esp in the phrase turn state's evidence). Brit equivalent: king's evidence or queen's evidence
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state's′ ev′idence


n.
evidence for the prosecution given by an accomplice in a crime.
Idioms:
turn state's evidence, to give evidence against one's accomplice or accomplices in a crime, usu. in exchange for a reduced sentence.
[1790–1800]
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state's evidence

Evidence given for the prosecution in a state or federal trial, or a person who gives evidence for the state.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.state's evidence - evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings
evidence - (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
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"Caruthers is not asserting the affirmative defense of NGRI, which would absolve him of all criminal responsibility, but merely seeks to contest the State's evidence that he deliberated before the homicide, which is an element of the pending first-degree murder charge," Powell wrote.
A few years later, he got caught in a $40 million pump-and-dump stock fraud, turned state's evidence against two New York crime families and then continued providing the government with information related to national security and other matters.
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'It is well stated that in the trial of every criminal case, a judge must rigidly test the State's evidence of guilt in order to ensure that such evidence adheres to the basic rules of admissibility before pronouncing an accused guilty of the crime charged upon such evidence,' the court said.
"Moreover, because nothing plus nothing equals nothing, I reject the idea that the state's evidence cumulatively is more than the sum of its parts."
He also took his most desperate swipe at Jeff Sessions, declaring, like a mafia boss speaking of a consigliere who's turned state's evidence,"I have no attorney general." Sessions, you see, committed the unforgivable sin of appropriately recusing himself from the Russia probe, a chain of events that led to the tapping of Robert Mueller as special counsel.
<br />Grose contended that the most recent conviction was inadmissible under the state's evidence rules because more than a decade had passed since Shands was released from prison.
State (Anoka County) https://mn.gov/law-library-stat/archive/ctapun/2018/OPa170675-040918.pdf &nbsp; Due Process Pretrial Hearings Appellant challenged his conviction for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, arguing, inter alia, that his right to due process was violated when he was required to choose between his right to challenge the admissibility of the state's evidence at a pretrial hearing and his right to a speedy trial.

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