turncoat witness
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]turncoat witness (plural turncoat witnesses)
- (law) A hostile witness.
- 1995 October 6, Selwyn Raab, “Brother of Mob Turncoat Is Gunned Down”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Federal prosecutors say that in addition to turncoat witnesses, they are armed with secretly recorded conversations made in the Camden, N.J., office of Mr. Stanfa's lawyer, Salvatore Avena, who has also been indicted on racketeering charges.