The two police officers stand by their original testimony.
What was the original testimony and how was it altered?
A line in Mr. Garner's original testimony offered another opening.
At the December hearing, several prosecution witnesses had either recanted or contradicted their original testimony.
But two of the men completely reversed their original testimony and the others turned out to have only vague recollections.
This was a reversal of Ekşi's original testimony which portrayed the killing as an accident.
The effect is to denature the original testimony, removing any sense of urgency it may have once had.
The servant claimed his original testimony had all been false by reason of insanity.
Some judges have ruled that recantations should be given more weight in cases where the original testimony constituted the only evidence.
However, that was not part of her original testimony.