{"id":3500,"date":"2015-11-05T00:31:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T05:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2023-08-10T04:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T08:14:41","slug":"61-let-your-witness-do-the-talking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=3500","title":{"rendered":"61. Let Your Witness Do the Talking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3849\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pt05pg61-1.png\" alt=\"An effective witness interview involves first getting the witness to recreate the original context in his mind, to better call up memories. Then let the witness give an uninterrupted narrative. Only when he is finished do you ask pointed questions to flesh out the details. Then go over your notes with the witness to make sure you have it right, and bring out any more details that might have escaped him. This maximizes fact-gathering while minimizing suggestion.\" width=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pt05pg61-1.png 2800w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pt05pg61-1-247x300.png 247w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pt05pg61-1-768x933.png 768w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/pt05pg61-1-843x1024.png 843w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2800px) 100vw, 2800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,44,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-procedure","category-eyewitness-identification","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}