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JDPriestly

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5. Young's veracity is placed in doubt. His testimony will quite likely not be believed.
Fri Apr 27, 2012, 03:00 AM
Apr 2012

Since Young is the prosecution's most important witness, that rather makes the prosecution's case just as unbelievable and untrustworthy as its chief witness.

Young is the person claiming that Edwards orchestrated the use of the donations (which were allegedly not intended for direct use in the campaign which is confusing in and of itself). The defense's cross-examination of Young really placed doubt on all of Young's testimony, his certainty about dates. Young's story is kind of falling apart.

So that is how this changes things.

Turning an opposing attorney's key witness into the opposing side's key problem is every litigation attorney's dream.

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