hostile witness

noun

1. a witness who gives evidence against the party calling him

Example Sentences

And hostile witnesses, he said, are “mostly ineffective with jurors.”

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Prosecutors consider McConney a reluctant witness, and had sought unsuccessfully that he be declared a hostile witness so they could question him more aggressively.

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However, District Judge Andrew Sweet said the CPS could compel Mrs Barton to give evidence or treat her as a hostile witness.

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While Pence has yet to comment on the committee’s work, Trump would certainly be a hostile witness.

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He has also vowed to subpoena hostile witnesses like Speaker Nancy Pelosi, ostensibly to learn what she may have known about security at the Capitol before the attack.

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