minor4th
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Apparently not, since none of my criminal lawyer friends are surprised by this. Personally, I think his testimony would have seemed far more independent (and therefore credible) if he wasn't sitting there at the prosecution table.
In this particular case, of course, the defense witnesses are so lacking in independence that it hardly matters.
That is what I kept saying at the beginning of the trial and I got jumped on from here to kingdom come -- as though I was saying Flores was biased or not credible (and he is biased, it's his job to put bad guys in jail). I was only talking about how jurors might see it and how it might impact the weight and credibility they give to Flores' testimony. As it turns out, I do not think it matters for the same reason you stated.