How to Use alibi witness in a Sentence

alibi witness

noun

• There were also alibi witnesses who said the two men were at a birthday party at the time of the shooting.
  — Jordan Freiman, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2020
• Justices said in the new ruling that Skakel’s trial lawyer failed to present an alibi witness.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2020
• Syed appealed on grounds that this trial lawyer failed him by not calling the alibi witness Asia McClain.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• But alibi witnesses later confirmed Molina was more than two miles away at the time.
  — Bree Burkitt, azcentral, 31 July 2019
• The attorneys are again urging justices to find that Syed’s trial lawyer failed him by not calling an alibi witness.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• Including those alibi witnesses -- 10 of them who put Crosley Green miles from the scene of the crime and the fact that the prosecution's star witnesses all have recanted.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2019
• Davis’ attorneys presented an alibi witness who testified that Davis was at her home with her and her then-boyfriend at the time the murder occurred.
  — Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• The lawyer, who said that Skakel was several miles away from the crime scene watching a Monty Python movie with friends, had argued that Sherman had neglected to get in touch with an alibi witness.
  — Eli Rosenberg, Washington Post, 4 May 2018
• One of the three was Sherman’s failure to locate and call the alibi witness, who continues to live near Greenwich and is available to testify at a retrial.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 6 May 2018
• The opinion, which found Syed's previous counsel had failed him in deciding not to call a key alibi witness at his trial two decades ago, could be appealed to the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.
  — Tribune News Service, OregonLive.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• Even with four alibi witnesses, Samuel Soliz was convicted of holding up a convenience store in 1995.
  — Dallas Morning News, 9 Apr. 2020
• Yarbray will testify about his whereabouts the night of the stabbing, as will several alibi witnesses, the attorney said.
  — Mensah M. Dean, Philly.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• Syed argued that his trial lawyer had been ineffective in not calling an alibi witness.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Nov. 2019
• But Edwards was also able to undermine Spencer’s only defense: the alibi witness.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2018
• Skakel's murder conviction was vacated in 2018 by the Connecticut Supreme Court, which ruled that his attorney had deprived him of a fair trial by failing to call an alibi witness.
  — Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN, 30 Oct. 2020
• Investigators then tracked down alibi witnesses who said Martinez was at work during some of the crimes that were believed to have been committed by a serial robber.
  — USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
• Devoted listeners will recall that’s when Asia McClain, the alibi witness, who Syed’s original lawyer never reached out to, finally spoke in court.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2022
• Syed’s attorney didn’t even interview the alibi witness.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 22 Aug. 2019
• Syed was granted a post-conviction hearing in February 2016, during which his new attorneys argued that his original counsel had failed to call an alibi witness.
  — Justin Fenton, baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• In charging documents, detectives wrote that Rather had offered up two alibi witnesses.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 15 July 2019
• Syed was granted a post-conviction hearing in February 2016, during which his new attorneys argued that his original counsel had failed to call Chapman as an alibi witness.
  — baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The statement doesn't detail the new evidence, but The Houma Courier, citing sources close to the investigation, reports an alibi witness recently recanted their statement.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2021
• The state’s attorney claimed that it had been concocted by the Skakel family and founded on the perjurious testimony of the petitioner’s alibi witnesses.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 4 May 2018
• Santos also asked for reconsideration solely on the issue of Sherman’s failure to locate the alibi witness.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 4 May 2018
• Santos argued that Sherman made poor decisions, including not focusing on Skakel's brother as a possible suspect and failing to attempt to contact an alibi witness.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 4 May 2018
• Santos argued that Sherman made poor decisions, including not focusing on Skakel’s brother as a possible suspect and failing to attempt to contact an alibi witness.
  — Time, 4 May 2018
• The brief says Syed was not given a proper opportunity to investigate an unbiased and credible alibi witness.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• Syed's lawyers had argued that his trial lawyer's failure to investigate an alibi witness violated his right to competent legal representation.
  — CBS News, 25 Nov. 2019
• Investigators say the scripts include false alibi witnesses.
  — Jennifer Henderson, CNN, 20 Feb. 2020
• Since the conviction, a jailhouse snitch recanted his testimony that Kensu had confessed, and a federal judge overturned his sentence after finding, in part, that his lawyer provided ineffective counsel by never calling a crucial alibi witness.
  — NBC News, 21 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024