1.   Then the prosecution wheeled in a surprise witness.

2.   And then in walks a surprise witness, an unknown scholar who silences the room with an unexpected plea.

3.   Boyd tried to get a postponement last week, saying the defense had sprung a last-minute list of surprise witnesses.

4.   But he told reporters that he has a surprise witness who would testify that Bell and Fuhrman were acquainted.

5.   Finally, the defendant in Weatherford did not object at trial to the surprise witness, and did not later show how he was prejudiced by the surprise.

6.   Prosecutors had flown Polk to Amarillo late that night to rebut testimony from her ex-husband, Uewayne Polk, a surprise alibi witness for the defense.

7.   The surprise witness, Jennifer Pease, attended Elan, a school for troubled youths in Maine, with Skakel.

8.   There is also a promising Senate subcommittee hearing on pornography at which Jesus is a surprise witness.

9.   We wait dutifully for the surprise witness, the legal twist, the discovery of the key evidence that we know has been suppressed.

10.   Outraged prosecutors said the defense never shared information about Gerchas or many of the other surprise witnesses, as required by state law.