Word: witnessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lorraine Carter, 31, is not untypical, except perhaps in her refusal to be bullied. She is the chief complaining witness against her estranged lover-the father of four of her six children-who, she claims, "tried to murder me last year." While the ex-boyfriend's trial in Brooklyn...
The reflexive viciousness of the drug trade came into stark relief last month with the case of Nathaniel Sweeper, a suspected drug-gang enforcer who was accused of shooting another man to death on a Harlem street corner. The chief witness against Sweeper was a drug addict named Bobby Edmonds...
That widely reported case no doubt chilled the courage of potential witnesses all over the country. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau notes that Edmonds' was one of those rare New York cases in which a witness was offered protection, only hours before his death. He turned it down because...
Counterintimidation sometimes helps. Police may follow a witness for a time, or have a "chat" with the person accused of making the threat.
Many cities also now have agencies that work with victims and witnesses on protective measures. The ultimate and most expensive defense is to move the witness. The 13-year-old federal Witness Protection Program has relocated and changed the identities of some 4,000 witnesses hi organized-crime cases. Chicago...