Turn State's evidence

Definition

evidence /'evÇdǝns/ n ၁။ [U] ~ (for sth/to do sth/that …) အကိုးအကား။ အေထာက္အထား။ သာဓက။ သက္ေသ။ not a scrap/shred of evidence ❍ There is now fresh/further scientific evidence for this theory. ❍ The medical/forensic evidence suggests (that) he is guilty. ❍ There is no evidence that the meeting actually took place. ❍ Have you any evidence to support this allegation? ❍ His statement to the police was used in evidence against him. ၂။ [U, C] လကၡဏာ။ အသြင္။ ဟန္။ The room bore evidence of a struggle. ❍ On the evidence of their recent matches it's unlikely the Spanish team will win the cup. ❍ The cave produced evidences of prehistoric settlement. v ( fml ) အေထာက္အထားျဖစ္သည္။ သာဓကျဖစ္သည္။ Trading by big institutions continues to rule Wall Street, as evidenced by the New York Stock Exchange's own statistics. ❏ give (one's) evidence [ IDM ] သက္ေသခံသည္။ သက္ေသ ထြက္ဆိုသည္။ give evidence for the defence. ❏ (be) in evidence [ IDM ] အထင္အရွား ေတြ႕ျမင္ရသည္။ The police were much in evidence at today's demonstration. ❏ turn King's/Queen's evidence ( Brit ); ( US ) turn State's evidence [ IDM ] အစိုးရသက္ေသအျဖစ္ ေျပာင္းလဲ ထြက္ဆိုသည္။ (အျပစ္ေပါ့ေအာင္) ေဖာ္ေကာင္လုပ္သည္။ Compare PLEA BARGAINING

Examples

1. Evidence shows that global warming is definitely occurring.
2. [evidence of] : Doctors found no evidence of infection.
3. [evidence that] : There is some evidence that the economy is improving.
4. [evidence for/in support of/in favour of] : Evidence for the existence of life on other planets
5. The police didn’t have enough evidence to convict him.
6. They destroyed the evidence by flushing it down the toilet.
7. [hard evidence] : They are reluctant to prosecute without any hard evidence.
8. In his evidence
9. he said that he had never met Mr Jones.
10. [give evidence] : Kemp was never called to give evidence.