31.   Prosecutors said they feared witnesses might change their testimony to conform to what they might think the public wanted to hear.

32.   Santos was being under police protection and was ready to change his testimony, TV Globo reported.

33.   Suspicions were raised after the trip when Ben-Gal changed his testimony in a libel case brought by Sharon against the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

34.   The newspaper alleged that Ben-Gal had changed his testimony in exchange for a spot on the Russia trip which offered lucrative business opportunities.

35.   The riot began after the court postponed the cases until October, apparently because two witnesses changed their testimonies and would no longer identify the accused.

36.   Tripp attorneys contend Lewinsky changed her testimony to help prosecutors and to seek revenge against Tripp.

37.   Under repeated questioning by the judge and after consulting with his lawyer, Parche changed his testimony and said he would have attacked even if Seles had been American.

38.   A second witness, Sigge Cedergren, also changed his testimony last spring just before his death.

39.   But they revised their hypothesis when Condello decided to change his testimony and confess his part in the assassination.

40.   Judge Tambuwal also said he took into consideration the fact that the woman had changed her testimony.