NOUN
- (law) close questioning of a hostile witness in a court of law to discredit or throw a new light on the testimony already provided in direct examination
How To Use cross-examination In A Sentence
- Petrocelli Monday afternoon began an aggressive cross-examination after Simpson finished five hours of gentle questioning by his own lawyer Friday and Monday.
- The court was invited to order that Mathews be recalled for further cross-examination in the light of material which had become available since the trial, but it refused to follow that course.
- Under cross-examination from Botha's advocate Lappe Laubscher, Van Zyl said while Tutu initially attempted to accommodate Botha by allowing him to respond to questions in writing, he had never undertaken to indefinitely "immunise" him from testifying. ANC Daily News Briefing
- He denied under cross-examination that they had broken into the nursery.
- His position has been carefully isolated as his various Lieutenants have, at last, been subjected to searching cross-examination instead of the toothless gumming meted out by the MSM over the years, something which has demonstrated the high standards of advocacy that are produced by our adversarial system of litigation, though, strictly speaking, an inquest is inquisitorial in nature. Archive 2008-02-10
- On cross-examination Rutherford was asked if he paid the woman $50, 000.00 for discounts she obtained for the defendants respecting their condominium.
- Obviously he felt disquieted by the procedure and felt that it would have been possible for him to have protected the complainants adequately had the normal process of cross-examination proceeded.
- Under cross-examination, the witness admitted her evidence had been mostly lies.
- Lajoie said that Italo Medugno was "unshaken" in cross-examination and his account was backed by two other former students at Pleasant Park Public School. Ottawa Sun
- The judge then considered and quoted at length from the cross-examination of Mr Kirkland.
