81.   If indicted, the lawyers said, the troopers would be useless as prosecution witnesses and the charges against their clients would probably be thrown out.

82.   In numerous other cases, recanted testimony by prosecution witnesses, improper rulings by the judge or misconduct by the prosecutors resulted in convictions that had to be reversed.

83.   In testimony Monday, three prosecution witnesses said they had seen Davis at various Petaluma locations in the weeks leading up to the kidnapping.

84.   In the middle of it all Tuesday sat Renee Montgomery, a prosecution witness who took the stand for the first time.

85.   In particular, the impact of Michael Fortier, the chief prosecution witness, has changed.

86.   In the state trial, he testified as a prosecution witness, implicating Koon and Powell.

87.   It is instructive that the Connolly jury rejected counts that depended on the testimony of prosecution witness John Martorano, a confessed hit man.

88.   It was not a strong refutation, since prosecution witness after prosecution witness has linked Cherry to those men.

89.   It would also let defendants facing a life sentence or execution depose prosecution witnesses before trial.

90.   Ito, meanwhile, did approve his own special instruction about his decision to allow a prosecution witness to testify about a dream.