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    Cases Often Rest on Shaky Witnesses

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    By on July 11, 2011 Deborah Denno, Faculty, In the News

    Deborah Denno comments to the Wall Street Journal on prosecutors routine pursuit of cases that rely on witnesses with credibility problems similar to those dogging the accused.

    Deborah Denno, a law professor at Fordham University and a criminal-law expert, speaking generally said, “People lie on asylum applications—they sometimes have a lot of pressing financial incentive to do so.”

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