witness interview
Questioning someone present
A witness interview is a formal conversation in which investigators, attorneys, or journalists question someone who observed an event or has relevant knowledge.
Police conduct witness interviews after crimes; lawyers interview witnesses before trials.
The goal is to gather accurate, detailed information while the memory is fresh: The detective scheduled a witness interview for the following morning.
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- depositionFormal testimony under oath
- sworn statementLegally binding written testimony
- statementExpressed claim or fact
- interrogationFormal, probing examination
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- investigationinvestigation, detective, evidence, clue, case
- Crash InvestigationsNTSB, crash investigation, crash site, crash scene, black box
- Crime Scenecrime scene, evidence marker, evidence bag, evidence bags, crime tape
- incident reportsincident report, accident report, injury report, damage report, police report
- prosecutionprosecutor, district attorney, DA, prosecution, public prosecutors
witness interviewsuspect interrogation
Formal police interview of accused
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