Three Cheers for Our Witnesses

The Los Angeles Times ran an article today about a woman who recently died, after testifying in a gang murder case.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-witness6dec06,0,5870658.story?page=1&coll=la-home-local

Whether witnesses testify for the prosecution, or for the defense, or somewhere in between (the legal knife does have a tendency to cut both ways), they deserve props for showing up to court and doing their civic duty.

Here's to our witnesses. Whatever our witnesses have to say, they are a criminal defense investigator's bread and butter.