Each witness would still be subject to cross-examination, and the difference between what he heard and saw and what he presumed or inferred would be made clear.

WSJ: James Q. Wilson: Excerpts from His Writings in The Wall Street Journal

For example, until one brave woman sued the British government in Strasbourg, rape victims in England were subject to lengthy cross-examination in person by men who were alleged to have violated them.

BBC: SHAMI CHAKRABARTI, DIRECTOR OF LIBERTY

Yet few complained that the President, a former constitutional law professor, decided to treat Bin Laden to the accelerated due process of a bullet to the head rather than allow him to argue his case and subject his accusers to cross-examination.

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