Title: Describe witness-interview techniques.
Course: Forensic Technology (15055) > Section: Applying Crime Scene Procedures

Description should include

- separating witnesses and questioning individuals alone
- documenting the contact information for anyone interviewed
- describing the interview subject
- asking standard questions, including place, time, and circumstance
- documenting the entire process (e.g., questions asked, answers given, start and finish time and/or date of interview, additional observations).

Process/Skill Questions:

- What are the procedures for questioning witnesses?
- How does eyewitness evidence affect a case?
- Why is it important to keep witnesses separate?
- What are some reasons that witness statements would conflict?
- What types of contact information are collected from witnesses?