Character Witness
Commentators have noted that the ability of defendants to call character witnesses can give an advantage to more affluent defendants. Affluent defendants can call, as character witnesses, celebrities, athletes, and prominent members of the community. In contrast, it is not unknown for death row inmates to sometimes call, as a character witness, fellow death row inmates.
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Famous quotes containing the words character and/or witness:
“Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“It is the witness still of excellency
To put a strange face on his own perfection.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)